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Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, is the author of “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World.” A version of this op-ed appears in print on June 30, 2014 ...
In 1994, on the eve of Rwanda’s genocide, Radio Mille Collines, in Kigali, incited listeners with a venomous message: “To kill the big rats, you have to kill the little rats.” It was a veiled command to murder the youngest generation of Tutsis, the country’s minority tribe.
So we get sound bites rather than solutions to a real national-security threat. Robin Wright, author of “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World,” is a distinguished scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Paul Hughes, a senior adviser at the United States Institute of Peace and a former Army planning officer during Operation Desert Storm, told me this week, “The idea that we can stomp the bejesus out of a rival and put a bayonet to its throat does not ...
"The state of play between the United States and Iran is too fragile to endure what would be the shock of a direct meeting," said Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the Wilson Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. An in-person meeting ...
The Obama administration has been drumming up support for the U.S. plan against the Islamic State. How do Middle Eastern nations regard the militant group and the U.S. strategy? Hari Sreenivasan gets reaction from Robin Wright of the United States ...
The fatwa against Salman Rushdie was never about Salman Rushdie. Journalist Robin Wright explains.
The girls and women of Iran are just bitchin’ brave, flipping the bird at its Supreme Leader in a challenge to one of the most significant revolutions in modern history. Day after dangerous day, on open streets and in gated schools, in a flood of tweets and brazen videos, they have ridiculed a theocracy that..
Veteran Middle East journalist Robin Wright tells Fareed that, in Iran, we are witnessing the world's first counter-revolution led by women...
According to The New Yorker Contributing Writer Robin Wright, said much of Albright's legacy outside of her political diplomacy centered around supporting other women.