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.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor responds to recent cross-border fighting between Russia and Ukraine as Kyiv prepares for a counteroffensive. Taylor says Ukrainian troops have “the morale” to counter Russia in its coming offensive...
Three years after a deadly brawl between Indian and Chinese forces along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), relations between Beijing and New Delhi remain in what Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has repeatedly described as an “abnormal” condition. Strangely, at the heart of a dispute that...
Ahead of the Buddhist new year in Myanmar last month, a few hundred locals congregated one morning in Pa Zi Gyi village in Sagaing region, in the country’s Buddhist heartland. It was supposed to be a happy event to mark the opening of a new office of the dissident national unity government, which opposes the...
Papua New Guinea signed a defence pact with the United States on Monday, giving US forces access to its airfields and ports as Washington vies with China's expanding footprint in the Pacific region. Washington has growing concerns about China's rise in the...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is officially back in the Arab fold. After more than a dozen years of ostracism, he was warmly embraced by regional leaders at the Arab League summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, this week. This once-unthinkable comeback creates a “conundrum” for the United States, which continues to...
Indonesian police arrested a man and a woman this month who are suspected to be behind the trafficking in persons from Indonesia to Myanmar. Police collected information from the 20 victims who were enticed with false promises of employment in Myanmar. But they were forced to...
Amidst the reports of Russian forces declaring the capture of the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut, Ukraine has asserted its continued control over certain areas within the region. These contradictory claims arise from a prolonged and arduous battle in which Russian soldiers...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning people to be wary of fake job advertisements used to lure applicants into scamming operations in Southeast Asia. Such schemes, perpetrated primarily by Chinese organized crime groups, have exploded in size in recent years, with Cambodia as the epicenter...
Antony Blinken will be dispatched to meet Pacific leaders at a summit Monday in the place of President Joe Biden, who had planned a historic visit spurred by Beijing's growing regional clout. On a brief stop in Port Moresby, the top US diplomat will pass sites including a Chinese-built national courthouse, bus stops with Mandarin signs, and even...
Since 2012, multiple failed political transitions have taken their toll on the Libyan people. The continued and increasingly complex internal divisions and external vectors affecting Libya threaten to send it into another spiral of crisis and violence. Local and national leaders working in good faith to stabilize the country have...