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.
China represents the world's number one challenge of the 21st century. That warning comes from the head of America's Office of Naval Intelligence as the Communist nation builds its military might across the Pacific. The tiny island of Taiwan finds itself in Beijing's crosshairs with continued signs of a possible...
All wars end. Eventually, the war between Russia and Ukraine will, too. The time to begin preparing for peace is not after the last gun falls silent but now, as the conflict rages. Long before they had triumphed in World War II, Allied leaders began to contemplate the shape of the future peace. At conferences in...
India was able to repel a Chinese military incursion in contested border territory in the high Himalayas late last year due to unprecedented intelligence-sharing with the U.S. military, U.S. News has learned, an act that caught China’s People’s Liberation Army forces off-guard, enraged Beijing and appears to have forced the Chinese Communist Party to reconsider its approach to land grabs along its borders. The U.S. government for the first time...
Poland's President Andrzej Duda announced Thursday that his country plans to provide four MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine to support its fight against Russia. Poland is the first NATO country to provide fighter planes to Ukraine, though Ukraine has requested fighter jets from several countries, including...
Russia’s aggression on Ukraine has been exposing Africa to supply chain destabilizations, financial instability and heightened food insecurity, thus gravely hurting millions of Africans and inflicting an increased potential for instability on some African states. Even so, and from the invasion onward, Russia...
The visit of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Kazakhstan was a clear and unambiguous signal of further strengthening of economic and political ties with this Central Asian country. Kazakhstan, on the other hand, has made signals of moving away from Russia’s political orbit in favour of establishing...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor was last in Ukraine shortly after the Russian invasion began. On one of his last stops in Louisville, Taylor toured the operations at the nonprofit, SOS International. “I was last in Kiev in September of last year during the war,” Taylor told...
Multidimensional poverty in Lebanon rose from 53% (pre-2019) to 82% in 2019, because of what the World Bank described as a deliberate depression orchestrated by the country’s elite and one of the top three most severe economic collapses worldwide since the 1850s. Moreover, it has been...
United States Vice President Kamala Harris will be the 18th and most senior American official to visit Africa this year in late March. The tour to Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia was scheduled for 25 March to 3 April. This visit will be the most high-profile as the US and Russia go pound-for-pound countering...
Despite divided government in Washington, there is ample room for bipartisan action on U.S. foreign policy. Countering China and buttressing Ukraine against Russia top the list, but the foremost opportunity for Republicans and Democrats to work together may be in Venezuela, where presidential elections next year...