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.
According to author Robin Wright, Iran will be reluctant to sign a new nuclear deal with the US because it currently has the largest missile program in the Middle East and is capable of producing enough fuel for a nuclear bomb in three weeks.
It has been more than 10 months since Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup. Its soldiers have since fought with urban protestors and rural militias using brutal violence. Activists accuse the military of killing more than 1300, and detaining more than 11,000.
Former U.S. diplomat Donald Jensen says predictions about Russia are always hard. He served at the embassy in Moscow as the Soviet Union was collapsing, and again in the years afterward.
Frank Aum, a senior expert on Northeast Asia at the US Institute of Peace, pointed out the Biden administration “wants to try as much as possible to accommodate its South Korean ally’s preference” despite its skepticism in an end-of-war declaration.
In Ethiopia, a civil war that’s been raging for more than a year seems to be entering a new phase. Rebel forces from the Tigray region are relinquishing areas seized from federal control. But the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says it is skeptical of the rebels’ ultimate goals. As Ali Rogin reports, the conflict may be evolving, but peace remains elusive.
The hardship confronting Tehran in Lebanon and Iraq could be an opportunity to contain its expansion.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and U.S. Institute of Peace Vice President, Bill Taylor, discusses where the United States' relationship with Russia stands following a critical call between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin amid heightening tensions on the Ukrainian border.
From severing Russia from the world's banking system to further arming Kyiv, US President Joe Biden is hoping threats of painful consequences will deter his counterpart Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine.
Any negotiations on troop deployments in Central and Eastern Europe would have to include all the countries affected, including NATO members on the alliance’s eastern flank, said William Taylor...
"I see very little possibility for talks with North Korea and progress toward denuclearization this year unless either the U.S. or North Korea or both sides adopt more flexible approaches to engagement," said Frank Aum...