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The Foreign Policy Research Institute is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the United States. We educate those who make and influence policy, as well as the public at large, through the lens of history, geography, and culture.
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• November 24, 2020 Economic Interests, Political Conflicts, and External Interferences: The Complex Interlocking of the Libyan Crisis
  By: Karim Mezran, Alessia Melcangi
• November 19, 2020 A Plan to End the War in Syria: Competing with Russia in the Levant
  By: Aaron Stein
• November 13, 2020 The Realist Victory in Nagorno-Karabakh
  By: Maximilian Hess
• October 28, 2020 Russian Naval Forces in the Syrian War
  By: Igor Delanoe
• October 26, 2020 Russian Aerial Operations
  By: Anton Lavrov
• October 07, 2020 China’s Monopoly on Rare Earth Elements—and Why We Should Care
  By: June Teufel Dreyer
• October 05, 2020 The Russian Ground-Based Contingent in Syria
  By: Charles Bartles, Lester Grau
• October 02, 2020 Georgia’s Doomed Deep-Sea Port Ambitions: Geopolitics of the Cancelled Anaklia Project
  By: Maximilian Hess, Maia Otarashvili
• September 24, 2020 Malta, Italy, and Mediterranean Migration: A Long History and an Ongoing Issue
  By: Leslie Rogne Schumacher
• September 21, 2020 The Hunt for Mobile Missiles: Nuclear Weapons, AI, and the New Arms Race
  By: Paul Bracken
• August 31, 2020 Russia’s Struggle to Gain Influence in Southeast Asia
  By: Bennett Murray
• August 27, 2020 U.S. Troops Injured in Altercation with Russian Forces: What It Means for the War in Syria
  By: Robert E. Hamilton
• August 21, 2020 The Role of Russian Private Military Contractors in Africa
  By: Anna Borshchevskaya
• July 30, 2020 COVID-19 and Authoritarian Regimes: China vs. Russia
  By: Yaroslav Shevchenko
• July 29, 2020 No Sanctuary: China’s New Territorial Dispute with Bhutan
  By: Felix Chang
• July 02, 2020 “Engaged Opportunism”: Russia’s Role in the Horn of Africa
  By: Samuel Ramani
• June 29, 2020 The Implications of Withdrawing American Troops from Germany
  By: Alexander Luck
• June 11, 2020 The Geopolitics of Post-Brexit Britain
  By: Geoffrey Sloan
• May 22, 2020 Social Distancing: Australia’s Relations with China
  By: Felix Chang
• May 12, 2020 The Swiss Model vs. Swedish Model in Dealing with China
  By: Joseph de Weck
• April 27, 2020 Lack of Demand: The Coronavirus Pandemic and China’s Belt and Road Initiative
  By: Felix Chang
• April 01, 2020 The Future of the Kurdistan Region after the Defeat of ISIS and the Failure of the 2017 Independence Referendum
  By: Pishko Shamsi
• March 30, 2020 Making Sense of the Sadrists: Fragmentation and Unstable Politics
  By: Benedict Robin-D'Cruz, Renad Mansour
• March 13, 2020 What To Do about Idlib
  By: Adam Garfinkle
• February 19, 2020 What North Korea’s Coronavirus Measures Say About Its System
  By: Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
• January 21, 2020 Narrowing Interests in the Middle East: Planning for Great Power Competition
  By: Aaron Stein
• January 21, 2020 Can Oman Survive Its Own Neighborhood After the Death of Sultan Qaboos?
  By: Louisa Keeler
• January 16, 2020 The Future of the Kuomintang in Taiwan: Reform, Recalibrate, or Stay the Course?
  By: Thomas J. Shattuck
• December 18, 2019 Russian Private Military Companies: Continuity and Evolution of the Model
  By: Anna Borshchevskaya
• November 06, 2019 Transitional Justice in Taiwan: A Belated Reckoning with the White Terror
  By: Thomas J. Shattuck
• October 24, 2019 Five Years of War in Donbas
  By: Robert E. Hamilton
• October 04, 2019 Russia's Central American Engagement
  By: Ivan Ulises Klyszcz
• September 01, 2019 It’s Not Too Late for Rojava
  By: Edward Hunt
• September 01, 2019 The NBA’s China Fiasco Shows What Businesses Really Value
  By: Brian Wakamo
• June 01, 2019 Geopolitics, Sanctions, and Russian Sovereign Debt Since the Annexation of Crimea
  By: Max Hess
• June 01, 2019 Anatomy of a Muddle: U.S. Sanctions against Rusal and Oleg Deripaska
  By: William Spiegelberger
• June 01, 2019 Under Pressure: Russian Energy Cooperation with Japan and South Korea since Western Sanctions
  By: Maria Shagina
• June 01, 2019 Russia in Venezuela: Geopolitical Boon or Economic Misadventure?
  By: Max Hess
• May 01, 2019 China’s Black Sea Ambitions
  By: Yevgen Sautin
• February 01, 2019 Why Did Greece Turn Against Russia?
  By: Dimitar Bechev
• January 01, 2019 The Sources of Post-Soviet Conduct
  By: William Spiegelberger
• December 01, 2018 Rebuilding Iraq’s Public Works Infrastructure Following the Defeat of ISIS
  By: Frank R. Gunter
• June 01, 2018 The Resiliency of Turkey-Russia Relations
  By: Selim Koru
• January 01, 2018 Debt and Discontent: The Collapse of the Putin Consensus?
  By: Christopher Jarmas
• May 12, 2017 Tolerating the “Intolerable Partner:” Once Shunned, Bulgaria’s United Patriots Joins the Governing Coalition
  By: John R. Haines
• May 10, 2017 President Macron’s France: Between Internal Turmoil and External Crossroads
  By: Hajnalka Vincze
• May 09, 2017 The Future of Mexico, Part II: As Mexico City Turns
  By: David Danelo
• May 01, 2017 The First Hundred Days: Trump Meets Asia...and Reality
  By: June Teufel Dreyer
• April 24, 2017 Can a Hydra Ever Be a Good Pet? Federal Information Technology Modernization’s Likely Failure
  By: Lawrence Husick
• April 17, 2017 Birds of a Feather: As Viktor Orbán’s Cronies Unload on President Trump, Orbán Sidles Up to President Putin
  By: John R. Haines
• April 10, 2017 Mar-a-Lago: The Summit that Wasn’t
  By: June Teufel Dreyer
• April 07, 2017 Khan Sheikhoun, Shayrat Air Base, and What Next?
  By: Adam Garfinkle
• April 07, 2017 The Future of Mexico, Part I: The Other Mexican Border
  By: David Danelo
• April 04, 2017 Thinking Beyond China When Dealing with North Korea: Is There a Role for Russia?
  By: Artyom Lukin
• February 01, 2016 Parliament without Politics: The Effort to Consolidate Authoritarian Rule
  By: Ann M. Lesch
• November 01, 2015 Religion and Secularism in the Middle East: A Primer
  By: Aaron Rock-Singer
• November 01, 2015 Religious Minorities in the Modern Middle East
  By: Lev Weitz
• October 01, 2015 Identity in the Pre-Modern Middle East
  By: Berkey Jonathan P.
• October 01, 2015 Post-Colonial States and the Struggle for Identity in the Middle East since World War Two
  By: Samuel Helfont
• August 01, 2015 Islam and Islamism: A Primer for Teachers and Students
  By: Samuel Helfont
• May 01, 2015 Civil Liberties vs. State Security in Historical Perspective
  By: Louis Fisher
• February 05, 2015 The Role of Military History in the Contemporary Academy
  By: Tami Davis Biddle, Robert M. Citino
• February 05, 2015 Internet Connectedness: Unequaled Incubator for Innovation or the Death of Privacy and Civility? ·
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• January 05, 2015 The Meaning of Israeli-Palestinian Polls: What They Are Willing to Accept is Different From What They Want
  By: Justin Finkelstein
• January 05, 2015 The History of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process
  By: Shibley Telhami
• January 05, 2015 Origins and Evolution of Zionism
  By: Liora Halperin
• December 05, 2014 The Partition of Palestine
  By: Bernard Wasserstein
• December 01, 2014 The Evolution of the Executive and Executive Power in the American Public
  By: Mackubin Thomas Owens, Stephen F. Knott
• November 05, 2014 Origins of the Palestine Mandate
  By: Adam Garfinkle
• October 05, 2014 America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems And How To Fix Them
  By: John F. Lehman (ed), Harvey Sicherman (ed)
• October 01, 2014 The Gulf Cooperation Council's Unified Military Command
  By: Brahim Saidy
• June 05, 2014 The Korean Peninsula: Yesterday and Today
  By: Paul Dickler
• May 05, 2014 From Black Boots to Desert Boots: The All-Volunteer Army Experiment Continues
  By: Leonard Wong
• December 05, 2013 The Geopolitics of the Sunni-Shi'i Divide in the Middle East
  By: Samuel Helfont
• February 01, 2013 The West and the Muslim Brotherhood After the Arab Spring
  By: Lorenzo Vidino
• December 05, 2012 The Three Versions of Al Qaeda: A Primer
  By: Clint Watts
• August 05, 2012 Radicalization in the U.S. Beyond al Qaeda: Treating the disease of the disconnection
  By: Clint Watts
• May 01, 2012 Transforming the Philippines’ Defense Architecture: How to Create a Credible and Sustainable Maritime Deterrent
  By: Felix Chang
• April 01, 2011 The Foreign Fighters Problem, Recent Trends and Case Studies: Selected Essays
  By: Michael Noonan
• February 01, 2011 Toward a U.S.-Mexico Security Strategy: The Geopolitics of Northern Mexico and the Implications for U.S. Policy
  By: David J. Danelo
• September 01, 2010 The Constitutional History of U.S. Foreign Policy: 222 Years of Tension in the Twilight Zone
  By: Walter A. McDougall
• January 01, 2009 What are We Fighting For? Western Civilization, American Identity, and U.S. Foreign Policy
  By: James Kurth
• January 01, 2009 Abraham Lincoln: Leadership and Democratic Statesmanship in Wartime
  By: Mackubin Thomas Owens