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.
Robin Wright, contributing writer and columnist for The New Yorker and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, joins to discuss the latest developments in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including whether there's a real threat behind Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear saber-rattling...
Russian attacks on Ukraine reached a new high point this week, with an ever-increasing number of shellings on civilians and children in major Ukrainian cities. The New Yorker’s Robin Wright joins Chuck to get a first draft of how this moment will go down in Russian history...
New Yorker columnist Robin Wright joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss whether Vladimir Putin’s nuclear war threat is an “epic bluff” as the war in Ukraine drags on and the humanitarian crisis there worsens...
1:18 Robin Wright has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, The Atlantic, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News, Foreign Affairs and many others. Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa and several years as a roving foreign correspondent worldwide. She has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions. Until 2008, she covered U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post...
Katie spoke to Robin Wright, a journalist and author who’s covered wars, revolutions and uprisings around the world, to get some answers.
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.
For the past two weeks, as Mosul has become the epicenter of a new U.S.-backed offensive to defeat isis—also known as isil—Mosul Eye has been posting dozens of times a day on its social-media outlets...
The first world leader to telephone Trump after his victory was Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former field marshal who orchestrated a military coup, in 2013, against a democratically elected President from the Muslim Brotherhood...
Aleppo looks set to fall to Assad, a turning point in Syria's awful war. We'll ask if Assad now looks set to win, and what that means for Syria and the region. Smoke rises after rebel fighters launch a mortar shell on residential neighborhood in west ...
"This is one of the worst humanitarian crises since World War II," said Robin Wright, joint fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace. She said about half a million people have died in this conflict so far. The Middle East ...