The European Union’s relationship with the countries of the Sahel is an agenda for both security and development, but one cannot progress without the other, said Pedro Serrano, Deputy Secretary-General for Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) and…
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Abdoulaye Bathily was named Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on Madagascar in April 2018 at a particularly precarious moment in the frequently distressed Malagasy public life. The country had had a 30-year history of national leaders being turned out of office before their terms were up when the outcome of a runoff second round […]
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Speaking at an IPI Global Leaders Series event on April 11th, Khaled H. Alyemany, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yemen, appealed for the implementation of the agreement reached in Stockholm in December that seeks to bring an end to a four- year civil war between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels. The conflict has […]
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Nigeria and South Africa have led most conflict-management initiatives in Africa in recent years, and both account for at least 60 percent of the economy of their respective sub-regions in West and Southern Africa. “The success of the political and economic integration in Africa thus rests heavily on the shoulders of these two regional Gullivers, […]
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The widening appeal of strongman authoritarian rule is undermining traditional liberal governance, historian Robert Kagan said, speaking at a March 28th IPI Distinguished Author Series discussion of his new book The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World.“We see it in Europe, we see it around the world in the rise of nationalism, in […]
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Some 18 months after 700,000 people fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state, camps in neighboring Bangladesh are now hosting more than one million refugees. Though Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed in November 2017 to a procedural framework for repatriation of these refugees—most of them Rohingyas from Rakhine state—the increased instability there has not allowed for safe, dignified, and […]
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