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.
To mark the anniversary in Tehran, President Rouhani pledged on state television Wednesday that Iran would keep its commitments. He added, however, that his government was “fully prepared and able” to resume its nuclear program—and capabilities—on very short notice, should the Western powers fail to meet their commitments.
Can Iran nuclear framework agreement win over skeptics in Washington and ... PBS NewsHour Robin Wright is an analyst and fellow at both the U.S. Institute of Peace and Woodrow Wilson International Center. She also writes for “The New Yorker.” And Karim Sadjadpour, he's senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment, where he focuses on Iran.
Robin Wright is an analyst and fellow at both the U.S. Institute of Peace and Woodrow Wilson International Center. She also writes for “The New Yorker.” And Karim Sadjadpour, he's senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment, where he focuses on Iran.
We hear from former Under Secretary of State and Under Secretary of Defense Frank G. Wisner, journalist and United States Institute of Peace Senior Fellow Robin Wright, and Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Two Iranian artists—Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian and Shirin Neshat—had retrospectives open this year, one at the Guggenheim, in New York, and the other at the Hirshhorn, in Washington. Both women were born in Qazvin, a former capital of the Persian Empire, about ninety miles northwest of Tehran, and a bastion of religious conservativism. The shows reflect the difficult choices artists face after a revolution. Both artists had to choose between revolutionary Iran and America. They took diver...
"Iran's efforts in Syria were never about saving Assad as such, but securing its own strategic position in the Levant," Faysal Itani, resident fellow at the Atlantic Council wrote recently. U.S. Institute of Peace-Wilson Center distinguished scholar ... and more »
... upgrading Special Operations forces in the Kurdish city of Erbil, and enhancing security aid to Lebanon and Jordan as well. Robin Wright, a distinguished scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington and the U.S. Institute of Peace, discusses the new ...
Reports of another hostage will almost certainly complicate Iran’s recent overtures to the West, discourage foreign business, and undermine further diplomacy. By Robin Wright October 30, 2015
Iran can no longer downplay its intervention in Syria’s civil war; there are too many public funerals these days. Two generals were killed in action this month. So was a senior bodyguard of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In recent weeks, senior Revolutionary Guards commanders—advertised as “military advisers”—have died on three separate fronts. By Robin Wright October 26, 2015
The attacks in Paris on Friday were the deadliest in France since the Second World War. The jihad’s many tentacles have now terrorized Western targets on six continents.