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This week on War & Peace, former MI6 chief and veteran diplomat Sir John Sawers joins Olga and Hugh for a horizon-scanning look at an international system in flux, the major players shaping it and what threats they will have to guard against.

Ethiopia has declared that its main military operation in northern Tigray is over, but fighting persists and existential questions hang over the country’s transition. This week on The Horn, Adem Kassie Abebe joins Alan to discuss how Prime Minister Abiy should navigate the troubled waters ahead.

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Richard Atwood talk with Phil Gordon about his new book Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, in which he argues that U.S.-led operations to replace Middle Eastern governments do not end well.

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Richard Atwood talk with Crisis Group’s Asia Program Director Laurel Miller about the U.S. plans to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan and reflect on the expulsion of Crisis Group Senior Analyst Will Davison from Ethiopia.

On War & Peace this week, former NATO Deputy Secretary-General Rose Gottemoeller joins Olga and Hugh to examine whether the alliance, 70 years into its conflict prevention mission, can still contend with the defence challenges of today and tomorrow, both internally and as an actor on the world stage.

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Richard Atwood talk about the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh with Crisis Group’s Europe Program Director Olga Oliker and examine Myanmar’s identity crisis with Crisis Group expert Richard Horsey. 

This week on The Horn, Crisis Group’s Brittany Brown joins Alan to unpack how the incoming Biden administration may recalibrate U.S. foreign policy toward the Horn and the African continent at large after four years of Trump’s unconventional presidency.

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Brittany Brown talk about their experience with presidential transitions and, together with Matt Duss, explore how U.S. foreign policy could change under a Biden administration.

How relations between the U.S. and Europe evolve under a Biden administration will undoubtedly shape the future of multilateralism. This week on War & Peace, EU expert Nathalie Tocci joins Olga and Hugh for a look at what this future may entail.

This week on The Horn, clashes have broken out between Ethiopia’s federal troops and forces in northern Tigray. Crisis Group experts covering the long-feared escalation and the broader Horn of Africa discuss reaching a ceasefire and how to address the underlying need for a broader national dialogue.