Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest analysis and perspective on the world’s critical hot spots, U.S. and global security and issues involved in violent conflict, based on the Institute’s work on the ground and with key individuals, governments and organizations. They give interviews and background briefings to journalists and write for news outlets around the world.
Coming off some of the most tense years since Japan and South Korea normalized relations in 1965, the two countries appear to be entering a new era in defense cooperation. The Asian neighbors recently stepped up military ties, along with their treaty ally, the United States, in response to geopolitical pressures including...
“After elections, they spend so much time complaining about the wrath they’ve seen and why it is difficult for them to meet the expectations of the same Nigerians they promised heaven and earth,” said Chris Kwaja, the U.S. Institute of Peace’s interim country manager for Nigeria...
A former US ambassador to Ukraine says if Ukraine succeeds in turning things in its favor on the battlefield, it then may try to retake Crimea diplomatically. William Taylor was speaking to NHK amid the growing prospect of Ukrainian troops ramping up their counteroffensive in the coming spring and summer. Taylor...
Pakistan is beset by twin crises. An economic meltdown, underway for several years, has metastasized into a full-blown balance of payments emergency. The nuclear-armed country is running out of dollars to pay for essential imports, such as oil, and help from the IMF remains stalled because Pakistan’s...
Diplomats from many Arab nations are meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the first time since the country’s civil war began in 2011, when most of them severed ties. The visits follow the devastating earthquakes that hit the region. But is that the reason for a thaw in relations? The World's...
“The international attention that is given to the situation in Nigeria is borne out of this very strong conviction that, if we get it right when it comes to democratic transition in Nigeria, the rest of Africa will also get it right,” said Chris Kwaja, the US Institute for Peace’s interim country manager in Nigeria and...
India’s greater visibility on the world stage in recent years and its refusal to take sides in the Ukraine war amid a major power rivalry are likely why Southeast Asian countries increasingly view New Delhi as a strategic partner, analysts say. In a survey released this month by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in...
Chris Kwaja, the US Institute for Peace’s interim country manager in Nigeria and a senior lecturer at Modibbo Adama University’s Centre for Peace and Security Studies, told Vox that there are a dizzying number of security problems related in part to the inability of the government to incorporate people from...
A Chinese state company has resumed preliminary work in Myanmar on a railway from China to the Rakhine State coast, two senior Myanma Railways officials have told Frontier. The railway is to be a key component of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor, linking Kunming in China’s landlocked Yunnan...