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.
Ye Myo Hein, author of the analysis and a visiting scholar with USIP, concluded that the military currently has about 150,000 personnel, including roughly 70,000 combat soldiers, while at least 21,000 service members have been lost through casualties, desertions and defections since the 2021 coup...
fighting in Sudan has created a humanitarian disaster after only two weeks. Did the U.S. overestimate the situation by pushing for democracy? And did we embolden the two military leaders behind the fighting — by treating them as...
Ye Myo Hein, a visiting scholar at the USIP in Washington, concludes that the military currently has about 150,000 personnel, including roughly 70,000 who serve as combat soldiers, while at least 21,000 service members have been lost through casualties, desertions and defection since the coup...
For Lin, getting to Dubai from Taiwan was easy—the scam company that had just hired him booked the flight and paid the airfare. Getting back home, however, was a lot more difficult. It was sometime in September 2021 when he arrived in Dubai, the glitzy poster-child of the United Arab Emirates. Lin said...
Months after Haiti's prime minister and the UN pleaded for intervention in the violence-ravaged nation, world powers are searching for new ideas with no country eager to lead a force. In the latest effort, a senior US envoy sought forward movement on Haiti on a visit to Brazil, which spearheaded a previous...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor joined other former ambassadors for a discussion on corruption in foreign governments and misuse of U.S. security assistance hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Several topics were discussed, including security sector assistance, combating corrupt...
The United States and the Philippines this week added new guidelines to a 1951 defense treaty that detail how the U.S. will respond to an attack on the Philippines in the South China Sea. Following a visit by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to the White House, the U.S. issued the guidelines saying its...
Taiwan has hailed Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos and President Joe Biden’s declaration of support for “maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. That statement underscores...
First it was a cloud of smoke, now it’s questions that are hanging over the Kremlin — but how much fire is there to Russia’s dramatic accusations? Moscow’s claim that the United States orchestrated a Ukrainian attempt to assassinate...
The United States and the Philippines this week added new guidelines to a 1951 defense treaty that detail how the U.S. will respond to an attack on the Philippines in the South China Sea. Following a visit by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to the White House, the U.S. issued the guidelines saying...