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PBS NewsHourHow can the foreign policy community get past a bruising election?PBS NewsHourThe ceremony, which the institute is hosting for the third time, is meant to represent a smooth transition between administrations, said Nancy Lindborg, president of the U.S. Institute of Peace. After a particularly fractious election, there is some ...and more »
Seventy years ago this week, as the Truman administration was defining its approach to the Cold War, Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg coined a phrase and proclaimed a principle: “politics stops at the water’s edge.” Vandenberg acknowledged that Americans had “earnest, honest, even vehement” differences on foreign policy. But, he wrote, “so long as we can keep partisan politics out of foreign affairs, it is entirely obvious that we shall speak with infinitely greater authority abroad.”
USIP President Nancy Lindborg spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about “Passing the Baton 2017: America’s Role in the World” a review, during the transition between administrations, of global challenges confronting the Unites States where USIP will convene Cabinet-level and other senior foreign policy and national security figures from the outgoing and incoming administrations.
US President-elect Donald Trump should develop clearer US policies to ease strains between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India, senior analysts said at a discussion at the US Institute of Peace (USIP). The discussion followed an escalation across the Line ...
Ten days before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, members of his national security team will join Secretary of State John Kerry and other senior foreign policy officials from current and former administrations to discuss immediate and long-term challenges facing the United States.
The rampage in Berlin on Monday—which the German government has now deemed a terrorist attack, though the motive behind the attack was still murky—was right out of the jihadi literature. Around 8 p.m., a black semi-trailer jumped the curb and barrelled at forty miles an hour into an outdoor Christmas market.
Conflict in the country drew armies from more than half a dozen neighboring countries between 1996 and 2003, killing millions. US special envoy Tom Perriello, speaking Thursday at the United States Institute of Peace, described Kabila's determination ...
“When other nations annex a neighbor, they don’t deserve the respect that comes with abiding by international standards of behavior,” said William Taylor, the former US ambassador to Ukraine and the executive vice president at the US Institute of Peace.
Islamist terrorism will never be fully eradicated, and the threat to the U.S. homeland is real: These are among the sobering conclusions of a new U.S. Institute of Peace study that traces the origins and evolution of Salafist jihadism, a phenomenon it ...
"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 ...