According to SIPA lecturer Laura Scherling, a growing group of volunteer Angelenos are building the movement to house LA and reverse climate change.

Stephen Biddle on Afghanistan: “The problem of the U.S. withdrawal is that it sent a nationwide signal that the jig is up — a sudden, nationwide signal that everyone read the same way.”

It's time to re-evaluate U.S. national interests and foreign policy when it comes to the Middle East and Central Asia, argues Gary Sick.

Steven Ehrlich (MIA '08) shares how the Taliban could threaten "Code to Inspire," a computer programming school for women based in Afghanistan founded by Fereshteh Forough.

Launched in 2019, SIPA’s Kent Global Leadership Program seeks to address the complexities of global conflict.

Roya Rahmani (MPA '09) served as Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States from 2018 until last month. She recently spoke with CNN to share concerns about the rights of women under the Taliban, as well as other issues.

“When the U.S. announced a total withdrawal, that sent a signal to Afghan soldiers and police that the end was near, and converted chronically poor motivation into acute collapse as nobody wanted to be the last man standing after the others gave up,” says Stephen Biddle.

The war in Afghanistan was basically an afterthought in U.S. politics, Stephen Biddle recently observed. “It’s been invisible.”

Stephen Biddle comments on Afghanistan: “Certainly since early in the Obama administration, this war has been almost invisible in American domestic politics. A catastrophe makes it front-page news.”

For decades, presidents have been concerned with a group of countries pushing up oil prices. Joe Biden is not weak on climate for sharing that concern, says Jason Bordoff.