Analysis October 15, 2025 Is Gen Z Reshaping Africa’s Political Landscape? By: Charles A. Ray In “Does Africa Matter to the United States?”, published by FPRI on January 11, 2021, it was argued that the youth of Africa, who currently account for almost half the continent’s population, could become recruits for extremist movements if... Read more	Podcasts October 14, 2025 Al Qaeda and the Islamic State: Still Alive and Fighting in the Sahel Listen in to Overheard as Mike DeAngelo discusses with Phil Wasielewski how militant Islamic terrorist groups are waging parallel insurgencies across western Africa, the motivations fueling these conflicts, how local African government responses sometimes just add more fuel to... Read more	Analysis October 7, 2025 The African Growth and Opportunity Act is No More By: Charles A. Ray In addition to a US Government shutdown at midnight on September 30, 2025, due to failure to pass a spending bill, an event largely ignored by America’s mainstream media was the expiration of the African Growth and Opportunity Act... Read more
Conversations October 6, 2025 The State of Baltic Studies By: Ben Gardner-Gill, Epp Annus, Karsten Brüggemann, Jörg Hackmann The following conversation, as featured on the Baltic Ways podcast, has been edited for clarity. Ben Gardner Gill: Welcome to Baltic Ways. I’m your host, Ben Gardner Gill. Today, as a new academic year is underway, we thought it was time... Read more	Analysis October 2, 2025 China’s Closing Window: Strategic Compression and the Risk of Crisis By: Ryan Agee When Beijing dispatched a relatively unknown rear admiral from its National Defense University to the 2025 Shangri-La Dialogue, bypassing its own defense minister and forfeiting its plenary address, it did more than snub Asia’s premier security forum. It signaled... Read more	Analysis October 1, 2025 America’s Scale Problem By: Mohammed Soliman There is a peculiar irony in watching the world’s most technologically advanced military struggle with something as basic as making enough bullets. Yet this is precisely where America finds itself as it attempts to be able to supply two... Read more
FPRI News October 1, 2025 FPRI Appoints Shihoko Goto as Vice President of Programs The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is pleased to welcome Shihoko Goto as the Vice President of Programs and Director of the Asia Program. Shihoko Goto comes to FPRI from the Woodrow Wilson Center, where she served as the... Read more	Analysis September 29, 2025 The Return of Subic Bay By: Emma Salisbury Subic Bay is back in American planning. Although described by the crew of the USS Fulton in 1945 as “a primitive, humid, unhealthy, desolate Siberia far from the pleasant climate, facilities, and girls of Australia,” the Filipino port was... Read more	Podcasts September 25, 2025 Continued Conversation About Collaborative Combat Aircraft Aaron sat down with Scott “FUG” Gilloon, who currently serves as the Sector Vice President of Air Force Strategic Development and Capability Assessments at GA-ASI. The two talked about General Atomics’ CCA, its origin story, how these aircraft may... Read more