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.
The Pakistani government unveiled an ambitious “tax-free” federal budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year that begins on July 1. It will see most spending go to debt service and defense. It also forecasts GDP growth despite what many say are prospects for a major recession fueled by...
North Korea’s demolition of a liaison office and threats to redeploy troops to front-line areas signaled a move to unravel a 2018 military pact that had been a high point in efforts to improve relations with the South. While the principal target of the North’s ire was...
North Korea's destruction of an inter-Korean liaison office is likely the first step in a series of provocations aimed at increasing its bargaining power with Washington and Seoul ahead of the November presidential election in the United States, experts here said Tuesday. Fully aware that...
North Korea’s destruction of a landmark liaison office with South Korea Tuesday is likely only the first of many steps Pyongyang can take to signal impatience with Seoul and its ally Washington, analysts said. The office, built during a warming phase in...
When Vice President Mike Pence attended the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, he made a point of not speaking to the smiling young woman who led the North Korean delegation, even when they were seated a few feet apart. "I didn't avoid the dictator's sister, but I...
The U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to announce that Jonas Lorincz—a junior from Marriotts Ridge High School in Marriottsville, Maryland—is the winner of the 2020 National High School Essay Contest.
In pursuit of our mission to prevent, mitigate, and resolve violent conflict, USIP announces the expansion of its efforts on the continent, establishing a center dedicated to Africa to be developed and led by a new member of a USIP’s senior leadership, the vice president of the Africa Center.
Libya has seen a sharp rise is coronavirus cases this week, only further destabilizing the country in the midst of a civil war. The ongoing violence in Libya has prevented humanitarian groups from going in to provide aid and testing, leaving its citizens with an already strained healthcare...
On Inauguration Day 2017, when Barack Obama ushered Donald Trump into the Oval Office, the outgoing president had a blunt warning for his successor concerning North Korea. The volatile and unpredictable dictatorship with a nascent nuclear arsenal and an...
Hours after an astonishing summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump boldly declared a breakthrough. “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea,” he tweeted. Yet two years later, despite two more face-to-face meetings and...