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.
In the midst of the damage to public health and the global economy, the COVID-19 crisis could present an unexpected opportunity both to resolve the only hot war in...
Plunging poll numbers, a shelved agenda and a coronavirus outbreak that ranks among the worst in the world have suddenly undercut Russian President Vladimir...
"I'm sure they would like to continue to keep the OSCE and international monitors limited," says Bill Taylor, a former Army officer and ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009, now executive vice president at the United States Institute of Peace. "But there's no reason for the Ukrainians or the Europeans or the Americans or the U.N. to agree to that proposal."
Ever since Russia invaded and annexed Crimea in 2014, subsequently backing a separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine that simmers to this day, the United States has responded with a mix of sanctions, diplomacy, and military assistance.
The outlines of what could be future U.S. policy in response to Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine were etched out a conference in the U.S. capital on Feb. 28, with experts emphasizing that Ukraine was on the frontline of a war to protect democracy itself. All of the speakers urged stronger...
In Tunisia, the one nation progressing in the struggle to build a democracy from the Arab Spring revolutions, the governing party of President Beji Caid Essebsi has fractured.
Ukraine must not remain a country of great but unrealized potential. The International Monetary Fund package and other foreign assistance are helping stabilize Ukraine’s economy, but only an attractive business climate can result in the level of investment that will truly transform the country for the long term.
However, as to the Russians' political pliability, William Taylor, Vice President of the Washington, DC-based US Institute of Peace said: “They are not yet part of the solution in Syria. As long as they continue to support Bashar al-Assad in Syria ...
A new Ukraine was born in the Maidan, but the United States and Europe have thus far failed to make an adequate commitment to its success. That must change. The West must now provide support commensurate with the military and economic threat Kiev faces, while also pushing the Ukrainian government to reform. A global order based on rule of law is at stake. Defending it cannot be done on the cheap. For the West, a Ukraine impoverished by Kremlin aggression will be far more costly.
As we did in the Second World War and during the Cold War, we should resist armed aggression against sovereign nations. We should maintain and toughen the economic sanctions in coordination with the European Union until Russia withdraws from Donbass and Crimea.