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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.

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Nnamdi Obasi and Comfort Ero explain the significance of Nigeria’s police brutality crisis and the resulting #ENDSARS protests. Rob Malley and guest host Richard Atwood also examine the protracted process of the U.S. presidential election.

Sudan's transition is in deep trouble, and Crisis Group’s Sudan expert Jonas Horner explains why on this week’s episode of The Horn. President Trump’s recent promise to remove Sudan from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism may not be enough to mitigate the spiralling economic crisis.

In this week’s episode of Hold Your Fire!, Rachel Kleinfeld examines the confluence of risks that put the 2020 U.S. presidential election in a category apart from any other in memory. Among the perils are the unprecedented toxic rhetoric, the increasing virulence of armed groups and the prospect of a contested election.