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Scott Smith, the director of Afghanistan and Central Asia Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace, said that the big question Afghans will now be asking themselves is what kind of support will the U.S. continue to provide in Helmand and beyond. "Will ...
However, economist William Byrd, a senior Afghanistan analyst at the United States Institute of Peace, believes that the idea of reducing opium production by spending billions of dollars in assistance has a major flaw. "The export value of opiates is ...
"African leaders like Blaise Compaoré who remain in power for long periods of time claim their leadership helps to foster stability, democracy and economic growth," Ambassador Johnnie Carson, a Senior Advisor at the United States Institute of Peace ...
Andrew Wilder, the vice president at the U.S. Institute of Peace's Center for South and Central Asia, has more hope for the bilateral aspect of Ghani's trip than for the Istanbul Process itself. In traveling to China, Ghani wanted “tangible commitments ...
“I think what has happened in sub-Saharan Africa is entirely different from what has been happening in the Arab world,” said Ambassador Johnnie Carson, senior adviser to the president of the U.S. Institute of Peace and former U.S. assistant secretary ...
Daniel Brumberg, a special advisor to the U.S. Institute of Peace, said there are signals from Nidaa Tounes that it does not intend to form a coalition with Ennahda. That would be a miscalculation, he said. “If Nidaa Tounes opted to build a coalition ...
Stephen J. Hadley, who was national security adviser under President George W. Bush, is the board chair of the United States Institute of Peace, and is on the Leadership Council of the Franklin Project. In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY ...
Currently, he is a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. Views expressed here are his own. The attack on the Hazara community in Quetta last month, which left 10 dead and many injured, comes amidst the recent spate of violence against ...
... of the Kabul Bank scandal, a signal that he wants to advance a reformist agenda and regain the confidence of international donors, Scott Smith, director of the Afghanistan & Central Asia program at the United States Institute of Peace, said in a DW ...
Scott Smith, director of the Afghanistan and Central Asia program at the United States Institute of Peace, says in a DW interview that despite the rise in anxiety in 2014, there are very good reasons for optimism under President Ghani, who has spent ...