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.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron have rightly turned down Vladimir Putin's invitation to go to Moscow on May 9 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Allies' victory in Europe, and President Obama may soon follow ...
The new administration will confront a range of international challenges. For now, Russia is the most threatening. William B. Taylor is the executive vice president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a nonpartisan organization. He served as the U.S ...
They're really concerned,” William Taylor, acting executive vice president at the United States Institute of Peace, says of Baltic countries like Latvia and their NATO partners. Taylor was a former infantry officer in the Army who served as U.S ...
William is Vice President for the Middle East and Africa at the United States Institute of Peace and served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. Jim is Deputy Director at the American Institute in Ukraine and a government relations and public advocacy ...
Insight from Amb. William Taylor, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine
A U.S. foreign policy that prioritizes Ukraine and Tunisia is a strategic vision with the potential to transform, not just respond to, a threatening global security environment. It is a vision both Democrats and Republicans have reason to support.
“When other nations annex a neighbor, they don’t deserve the respect that comes with abiding by international standards of behavior,” said William Taylor, the former US ambassador to Ukraine and the executive vice president at the US Institute of Peace.
Twenty-five years ago, after seventy years of Soviet dominance and over three hundred years of rule by Russia, Ukraine declared its independence. This occurred after a national referendum in which over 90 percent of Ukraine’s voters chose independence.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he's considering a new military strategy to move forward faster in the Ukraine-Russia war. BBC News correspondent Jenny Hill has more on the war, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor joined CBS News to discuss why progress has slowed for the...
As winter comes to Kyiv, Ukrainian and U.S. commanders are making cold and unsentimental assessments of the lessons of the summer’s failed counteroffensive against Russian forces. The stalled counteroffensive was a signal that the war in Ukraine is deadlocked. Drones and other high-tech weapons have made Ukrainian and Russian tanks largely obsolete. In this conflict, it’s now clear that...