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.
We asked Joshua Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, and Steven Heydemann, vice president for applied research on conflict at the U.S. Institute of Peace, for their analysis on a potential strike and ...
Video Player by Kaltura. Manal Omar joins the show to discuss more on the security situation in Iraq. She is an Associate Vice President at the United States Institute of Peace. Video Management, Video Hosting, Video Streaming, Video Platform · Video ...
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 ...
STATE DEPARTMENT—. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry travels to Jordan Tuesday for talks on building an international alliance against Islamic State militants who control parts of Syria and Iraq. reports on what that instability means for Jordan ... The militants’ brutal conquest of swaths of Syria and Iraq has heightened security concerns in Jordan, said Steve Heydemann, an analyst for the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent, government-funded institution in Washington.
“I think they are running out of time,” said Andrew Wilder, vice president of the Center for South and Central Asia at the United States Institute of Peace. “Afghanistan is going to need to work hard to maintain the diminishing support it has from the ...
“Al-Shabab changed significantly under his leadership, including prioritizing a more global agenda while losing control of large swaths of territory within Somalia,” said Jon Temin, head of the Africa program at the U.S. Institute of Peace. “It is too ...
But Theo Dolan of the Washington-based, government-funded U.S. Institute of Peace said Godane's killing could bring more violence. "For Kenya, this means the very real threat of reprisal attacks by local al Shabaab offshoot groups and the potential for ...
"It is too soon to declare the demise of Al-Shebab, but the group will now face difficult decisions about how to replace a brutal but effective leader," said Joe Temin of the US Institute for Peace. A top US intelligence official said there was no ...
U.S. Institute of Peace analyst Steve Heydemann says it is the gravity of that threat that makes for unlikely alliances. "Iran and Saudi Arabia are bitter adversaries around most issues and yet find themselves forced to consider the possibility of ...