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World Review: CCP 100th, Afghanistan, Cyber Attacks

Video Series
World Review with Ivo Daalder

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Stefan Kornelius, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

US military vehicles being loaded onto a flatbed pickup truck by a crane
Reuters
US Foreign Policy

Americans Favor a Two-State Solution More Than Israelis and Palestinians Do

BLOG
Running Numbers by Coauthors

After violent conflict between Israel and Hamas, a new Israeli governing coalition, and Palestinian repression, what would a peaceful future look like?

Palestinian protestors
REUTERS
Public Opinion

World Review: Ethiopia's Tigray Crisis, Lebanon's Decline, Rumsfeld

Video Series
World Review with Ivo Daalder

Kim Ghattas, Philip Stephens, and Julian Barnes join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

An armored tank drives down a paved path in Ethiopia
Reuters
US Foreign Policy

The US in Afghanistan: It Was Always Going to End This Way

In the News
Chicago Tribune
Elizabeth Shackelford

"The inevitability of the outcome does not make it any less tragic, but the tragedy does not make the decision to withdraw wrong," Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford explains.

Afghanistan base after US soldiers leave
REUTERS
US Foreign Policy

Closing Investment Gaps in African Aquatic Foods

BLOG
Global Food for Thought by Faridah Ibrahim

Aquatic food systems in Africa face many challenges and chronic underinvestment. WorldFish is trying to change that with the Fish for Africa Innovation Hub.

Trek net fishermen haul in their catch on Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town
REUTERS
Food and Agriculture

Martin Indyk on Breaking the Hamas-Israel Cycle of Violence

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Former US Special Envoy for Israeli Palestinian Negotiations Martin Indyk joined us after the 2021 cease-fire between Israel and Hamas to explore the pattern driving the violence.

Israeli rockets launch
REUTERS
Global Politics

Turkey's Role in Geopolitics

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

As a critical NATO ally and strategically located partner, Turkey's assertive foreign policy strategy has global implications.

Turkey's President Erdogan
REUTERS
Global Politics

We're Leaving Afghanistan. Now What?

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Just a few weeks after announcing the exit, the United States is already making progress withdrawing troops and resources from the site of America's longest war.

US soldiers leave Afghanistan
US Air Force
US Foreign Policy

Elizabeth Shackelford on Afghanistan

Video Series
Wait Just a Minute

Twenty years after the war began, the United States' forces will officially leave Afghanistan on September 11, 2021. What's the argument to leave and why has it taken so long?

Elizabeth Shackelford US Foreign Policy

Ending War Doesn’t Have to Be This Hard

In the News
Chicago Tribune
Elizabeth Shackelford

Elizabeth Shackelford explains why it's time for Congress to reassert limitations on our use of war.

U.S. Air Force pararescuemen carry an injured patient in Afghanistan
DoD | Angelita Lawrence
Defense and Security