On August 21, the Central American Parliament — a regional body representing Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Panama — voted to expel Taiwan as a permanent observer and replace them with the People’s Republic of… Read more
One of the most sage and skilled diplomats of the last century, the late Secretary of State George Shultz, used the analogy of a “garden” to describe the essential work of quiet statecraft. A healthy garden needs constant care and tending, he would say,… Read more
Earlier this month, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, often referred to as “Lula,” resurrected the moribund Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) with the group’s first summit in 14 years. Originally formed in 1995, ACTO was intended… Read more
“We are not writing the history of yesterday, but the history of tomorrow.” In the al-Washishi district of Benghazi a burnt-out car stands in memorial to a slain Libyan National Army (LNA) special forces fighter, serving as a city-wide reflection of the… Read more
The leaders of the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are gathering in Johannesburg this week in what is likely to be pivotal meeting for the bloc’s trajectory. Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be attending due to an… Read more
A number of commentators have criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s latest peace summit in Jeddah for failing to produce tangible deliverables. What these criticisms miss is that Ukraine is playing a game of diplomatic attrition aimed at… Read more
Editor’s Note: This piece has been published alongside “It Is Time to Account for All Missing Vietnamese” as part of USIP’s work to offer a comprehensive understanding of war-related recovery and reconciliation efforts in Vietnam. On the afternoon of… Read more
Editor’s Note: This piece has been published alongside “Piecing Together the Fragments of Memory to Find Vietnamese War Dead” as part of USIP’s work to offer a comprehensive understanding of war-related recovery and reconciliation efforts in Vietnam. As… Read more
Two years into Taliban rule, the question of whether Afghanistan would once again become a safe haven for international terrorism remains alive. Longstanding fears were affirmed a little over a year ago, when the U.S. government located al-Qaeda leader… Read more
In recent weeks, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has dispatched ships and other maritime forces to the disputed Spratly islands near the Philippines. The goal has been to coerce the Philippines into withdrawing from the contested Second Thomas Shoal… Read more
Editor’s Note: The following are remarks delivered on August 10 by Justice Antonio T. Carpio, a former senior associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, before the USIP-Stratbase ADR Institute Forum, “Assessing Crisis Communication… Read more
Amid the global challenges to building international stability and peace, a crisis increasingly forcing itself to the foreground — even amid those of record human displacement, climate degradation and unresolved wars — is the plunge by six countries… Read more