If the Burundian government calls the AU’s bluff and refuses to invite MAPROBU onto its territory, this raises an even more fundamental set of challenges for the AU.
Yearly Archives: 2015
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IPI Senior Adviser Francesco Mancini offers four broad lessons from 2015 than can guide the conduct of global diplomacy in years to come.
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IPI Policy Analyst Jimena Leiva Roesch discusses the recent climate change agreement reached in Paris.
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A list of notable books published throughout 2015, recommended by staff at the International Peace Institute.
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Lebanon’s security providers are connected through a web of overlapping arrangements, in which the boundaries between public and private identities of agents blur.
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Farea Al-Muslimi, Visiting Fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center and Chairman of the youth-oriented Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies, discusses the situation in Yemen ahead of scheduled peace talks.
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While the research on the effect of climate change on the risk of armed conflict and other forms of violent unrest is far from settled, climate change is at least anticipated to affect many of the more established pathways to conflict.
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Since Paris and the Russia-Turkey incident, the stakes have dramatically increased. Rhetoric has spiked as most sides have attempted to position themselves to achieve their specific goals, without sparking a wider conflict.
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The goals hovering over the talks are relatively clear, though important details may still be in dispute after national delegations have had time to read the new draft carefully.
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In addition to the UK, France also had some measured expectations for help from Germany, even though it has long been frustrated by Berlin’s disinclination to use force in international disputes.