Protests against Police Brutality Shake Nigeria
In this week’s episode of Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Richard Atwood try to make sense of a very convoluted electoral map, with no clear winner, the day after the U.S. election. They th...
5 Nov 202040min
Can the U.S. Avoid an Election Crisis?
This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Steve Pomper talk about a bizarre Oval Office meeting that enraged Ethiopia and a must-watch documentary about social media. Then they take a de...
29 Okt 202039min
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
