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When the U.S. returned Yemen’s Houthi movement to its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations on Mar. 4, the decision not only reversed the Biden Administration policy—it also reignited...
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Sri Lanka’s Visaka Dharmadasa has been awarded the Fifth Annual Laureate of Women Building Peace Award by the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP).
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In the first month of the new Trump Administration, much of the attention outside our borders has focused on Europe and the Middle East—the two regions that always seem to divert...
The United States Institute for Peace (USIP) says foreign-controlled illegal mineral mining is a major threat to Africa’s prosperity.
USIP's Jason Tower takes The Irrawaddy's questions on recent developments in the crackdown on scam centers on the Thai-Myanmar border. Key extracts follow.
In 2021, Sameer Lalwani and Tyler Sagerstrom wrote “Avoiding a Collision Course With India,” which argued that U.S.-Indian relations risked being overlooked in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal of Afghanistan and India’s controversial acquisition of Russian S-400 air defense systems. In light of continued questions over what the U.S.-Indian partnership should look like in practice, we invited Sameer back to reflect on his article.
The partnership is a pillar of Washington’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific region but faces challenges on issues including illegal immigration, visas and trade deficits.