What Makes Peace? Colombia’s Ex-President Santos Says It’s Harder than War
This week on Hold Your Fire!, former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos takes Rob and Naz behind the scenes of the negotiations with the FARC guerrillas that achieved a peace deal and won him the ...
22 Okt 202038min
Turkey Flexes Its Foreign Policy Muscles
This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob and Naz talk with Nigar Göksel, Crisis Group’s Turkey director, about how Turkey is flexing its muscles in its near abroad — Syria, Iraq, the eastern Mediterranean, a...
15 Okt 202040min
What’s Behind the Fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh
This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob and Naz question the efficacy of international sanctions, as the European Union wields this overused tool against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. They are the...
8 Okt 202034min
President Trump’s Off-the-Rails Foreign Policy
This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob reminisces about his recent trip to Azerbaijan, where he saw warning signs of a “frozen conflict” ready to thaw. Naz explains why the U.S. might regret trying to desi...
1 Okt 202034min
Libya's Proxy War
This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob pays a very personal homage to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and confides about what keeps him up at night. Naz explains the convoluted legal argumen...
24 Sep 202038min
Ethiopia's Political Crisis
Naz and Rob reflect on U.S. support for the Yemen war and the conspicuous absence of the Palestinian issue from the normalisation agreement among Israel, the UAE and Bahrain. Crisis Group's senior ana...
17 Sep 202034min
Afghan Peace Talks: Dealing with the Taliban
Naz and Rob discuss French President Emmanuel Macron's dive into the murky waters of Lebanese politics and the Trump administration's stunning decision to impose sanctions on the staff of the Internat...
10 Sep 202035min
Israel, the UAE, and Normalisation
In this first episode of Hold Your Fire, Naz and Rob talk about the role foreign policy played, or didn’t, at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, and explain why the U.S. attempt to sn...
3 Sep 202034min
