Afghanistan's Record Suffering - Wall Street Journal (blog)

Monday, December 8, 2014

News Type: USIP in the News

The current goal is to reduce the U.S. presence to some 5,500 soldiers by 2016 and all American forces by the time President Barack Obama leaves office. Robin Wright is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International ...

What role should Mideast countries play in Islamic State fight? - PBS NewsHour

Thursday, September 18, 2014

News Type: USIP in the News

The Obama administration has been drumming up support for the U.S. plan against the Islamic State. How do Middle Eastern nations regard the militant group and the U.S. strategy? Hari Sreenivasan gets reaction from Robin Wright of the United States ...

Muted Expectations for Obama, Rouhani Meeting - ABC News

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

News Type: USIP in the News

"The state of play between the United States and Iran is too fragile to endure what would be the shock of a direct meeting," said Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the Wilson Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. An in-person meeting ...

Iraq: The Risks - The New Yorker

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

By: Robin Wright

News Type: USIP in the News

Paul Hughes, a senior adviser at the United States Institute of Peace and a former Army planning officer during Operation Desert Storm, told me this week, “The idea that we can stomp the bejesus out of a rival and put a bayonet to its throat does not ...

Guest: What's the US goal in Iraq? - The Seattle Times

Monday, August 25, 2014

By: Robin Wright

News Type: USIP in the News

So we get sound bites rather than solutions to a real national-security threat. Robin Wright, author of “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World,” is a distinguished scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center.  

The New Way of War: Killing the Kids - The New Yorker blog

Monday, July 7, 2014

News Type: USIP in the News

In 1994, on the eve of Rwanda’s genocide, Radio Mille Collines, in Kigali, incited listeners with a venomous message: “To kill the big rats, you have to kill the little rats.” It was a veiled command to murder the youngest generation of Tutsis, the country’s minority tribe.

In the Shadow of Lebanon - New York Times

Sunday, June 29, 2014

News Type: USIP in the News

Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, is the author of “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World.” A version of this op-ed appears in print on June 30, 2014 ...

Face the Nation Transcripts: Rubio, Rogers, Boxer - CBS News

Sunday, June 22, 2014

News Type: USIP in the News

Robin Wright, joint fellow, the Wilson Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace: Well, that's a great challenge, because Prime Minister Maliki is now arguing that his ouster would amount to a success for ISIS, for the extremists. And that -- that ...