Friday, December 8, 2023
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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.
History As It Happens: Enter Taliban - The Washington Times
The U.S. war in Afghanistan could end the way it began: with the Taliban in power. When President Biden announced he would end “America’s longest war” by withdrawing the last U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the possibility of a Taliban takeover...
Is Russia Determined for War? - The Hard Question
Is Biden really strong against China? Does he support Japan? Is Russia fixated on invading Ukraine and possibly starting a war? BQ is joined by Christian Whiton and Don Jensen to discuss it all...
USIP's Jason Tower: "China's High-Stakes Calculation in Myanmar" - Sirius XM
Jason Tower is the country director for the Burma program based in Yangon for the United States Institute of Peace. He joins Julie Mason to discuss his latest piece: "China's High-Stakes Calculation in Myanmar"...
Gender and Security - War on the Rocks
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, sits down with Hilary Matfess (a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University and a Peace Scholar Fellow at the United States Institute for Peace)...
The Contradiction That Doomed America’s Mission in Afghanistan - The New York Times
It took barely two months after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 for the United States mission to point itself toward defeat. “Tomorrow the Taliban will start surrendering their weapons,” the Taliban’s spokesman, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, announced...
Pakistan’s political opposition pulls itself apart - East Asia Forum
The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), a coalition of opposition parties challenging the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI)-led government, celebrated the start of March with an upset victory in senate elections. But subsequent fractures within the movement have led to...
The Case for Maximizing Engagement With North Korea - 38 North (Stimson Center)
As the Biden administration’s North Korea policy review nears completion, there is growing worry that it could dig in its heels on previous U.S. efforts to change North Korea’s behavior through isolation and pressure. Early signals indicate...
Neil J. Kritz on Formation of an Israeli Government and the Prospects of Palestinian Elections - Sirius XM
Neil J. Kritz is senior scholar in residence at the United States Institute of Peace. He focuses on analyzing and advising on efforts to strengthen the Palestinian Justice system. He joins the guest host of Julie Mason Mornings, Elise Labott, to discuss the latest...
Failed state: Myanmar collapses into chaos - Nikkei Asia Review
At 5 a.m. on Friday, April 9, in Bago, one of Myanmar's ancient capitals, heavily armed troops mounted an assault on demonstrators barricaded in along Ma Ga Dit and San Taw Din roads on the east side of town...
Russian provocations surging as Blinken and Austin huddle with NATO allies - The Washington Times
The threat of a new Russian invasion of Ukraine will top the agenda as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin attend meetings with their counterparts at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg made headlines ahead of the U.S. delegation’s...