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(Washington) – The United States Institute of Peace releases Pandemics and Peace: Public Health Cooperation in Zones of Conflict, a new study revealing lessons in infectious disease control and international health cooperation. Identifying infectious disease as a first-order problem affecting the security and welfare of the international system, author William J. Long explores the extent to which public health cooperation can lead to new and improved forms of transnational political cooperation in a host of important areas, such as counterterrorism, environmental challenges, resource management, human rights protection, and economic assistance.

(Washington) – Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace  are closely following developments throughout the Middles East and North Africa. In a series of reports and interviews, they cover a wide range of issues. Below are excerpts from the analyses with links to the full commentaries:

Senator George J. Mitchell, special envoy for the Middle East, delivered the 2010 United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Dean Acheson Lecture, on Monday, May 24 in front of a packed audience.

Institute experts available for analysis and commentary.

Advance copies of new Institute book by Institute grantee Helena Cobban available for the press.