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.
NATO’s summit in Madrid, Spain, in June 2022 marked the first time the four leaders of NATO’s Indo-Pacific partner countries—Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and the Republic of Korea (ROK)—joined NATO counterparts for a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at Heads of State and Government...
Dean Cheng appeared on NewsNation’s The Hill to discuss Treasury Secretary Yellen’s trip to Beijing, China’s banning the export of two rare earth minerals, and China’s economy...
The U.S. military retreated from Afghanistan two years ago, leaving behind weapons that are now turning up in far-flung trouble spots where terrorists are fighting and killing America’s allies. In markets that have sprung up across the southern and eastern badlands, where the hottest fighting of the war took...
Developments in Venezuela over the past few weeks have provided reason for both deep pessimism and guarded hope that the country’s presidential election next year could help resolve its political crisis and advance a democratic transition. On the one hand, the regime-controlled legislature...
The goal of the meetings was to create a foundation for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Ukraine. Former Ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor, joins...
Russian missiles hit downtown Lviv earlier today in what Ukrainian officials called the biggest attack to date on civilian areas in the major western city. This comes as both sides accuse each other of plotting to sabotage the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. For more on this, Eric Thomas...
The idea was ahead of its time and has paid geopolitical dividends in the growing U.S. cold war with China. Saturday marks a year since former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed by an assassin’s bullet in an attack that shocked the nation. The anniversary also sparks reflections and a realization...
The presence of four Asia-Pacific leaders at the NATO summit this week suggests that Ukraine is not the only major security issue on the agenda of the European-North American defense alliance. The war in Ukraine has brought members of the US-led alliance closer than at any time since the Cold War, and...
Heading into this week’s NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, President Biden has made one thing plain: Ukraine won’t be joining the alliance any time soon, no matter how badly it might want to. “I don’t think it’s ready for membership in NATO,” Biden bluntly told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview that...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is turning to a familiar playbook in shoring up his authority: a smear campaign against Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner Group military leader who led a brief mutiny against the Kremlin. Public opinion against Prigozhin dropped sharply in the days after the rebellion. So Putin...