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...
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.
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...
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...
Over the past two weeks Russia has deployed troops to the Ukrainian border nearly doubling the force that they used to annex Crimea in 2014. The troop buildup is worrisome but the State Department is also concerned Russia is planning on blocking foreign naval ships and other...
The US departure from Afghanistan will pave the way for regional powers to increase their clout in the war-ravaged country. Moscow has its own interests in Afghanistan, but will it cooperate with Washington? As the US military and its NATO allies prepare to...
President Biden's announcement for U.S. and foreign forces to withdraw from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 appears to have derailed the peace process that was meant to wind down the conflict in that country. To the latest now on peace talks for Afghanistan. There was supposed to be a...
n early April, President Joe Biden announced that America will be ending its military presence in Afghanistan by September 11th of this year. "It is time to end America's longest war. It is time for American troops to come home," the President said...
In July 2017, the Iraqi military and Shia militias fought their way through Mosul’s Old City against ISIS. The air was filled with concrete dust and the stench of rotting human flesh and feces, the heat a punishing 110 Fahrenheit. There were dead bodies here and there...
The scheduled exit from Afghanistan in September represents much more than the end of the longest war in U.S. history. It will also mark the dawn of an era for a U.S. counterterrorism campaign that after two full decades will not have Afghanistan as a...
Kamissa Camara is a senior visiting expert for the Sahel at the U.S. Institute of Peace. She is a sub-Saharan Africa policy analyst and practitioner with 15 years of professional experience. Camara is also the former Foreign Minister of Mali. She joins Julie Mason to discuss...
President Joe Biden's China policy, still a work in progress, has so far been a tricky balancing act. He has struck a more measured public tone than his predecessor on some issues but an even sharper one on others, while preserving some of...