USIP in the News

NPR interviewed Scott Lasensky on the Bush administration's move toward conducting talks with Iran and Syria, and what these talks mean for Iraq and its neighbors.

An article in the American Chronicle detailed the latest forum in USIP's The Bangsamoro Future: Prospects and Challenges series.

Scott Lasensky was quoted in the USA Today article "Aid pulls U.S. and Jordan tighter" on the Pentagon's recent upgrade of Jordan's fleet of fighter jets, making Jordan's a top recipient of U.S. aid.

The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune quoted Daniel Serwer in the story "In U.S. Overtures to Foes, Signs of New Pragmatism." "...It’s absolutely clear to me that you have to talk to who you have to talk to, in order to get things done," Serwer said in response to what appears to be a U.S.

Daniel Serwer called the latest turn in American foreign policy a "positive one that opens up possibilities that have not been open," in a Reuters article on the regional conferences on stabilizing Iraq that will be attended by the U.S., with Iran and Syria invited.