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The Foreign Policy Research Institute is making its scholars available to provide expert commentary on the events surrounding the Boston Marathon Bombings, including the national security implications, and background on the geopolitical context of the suspects’ nationalities. 
Open exclusively to university faculty and graduate students and FPRI Members at the Fellows Level ($1,000). We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging from North Korea to a nuclear Iran to the global zero movement are generating sharp debate... 
The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is pleased to announce the launch of “The Philadelphia Papers” -- a new series of E-Books devoted to illuminating the foreign policy and national security issues of the day. With expert analysis from FPRI’s global network of scholars, the Philadelphia Papers will seek to bring the best of scholarship to bear on issues of... Featured Items
From the FPRI Archives -- "Russia’s Problem: the Chechens or Islamic Terrorists?" by Michael Radu
This article was orginally published as an FPRI E-Note in September 2004. Russia is under assault by Islamic terrorists. On August 24, two Russian airliners were blown up, leaving 90 people dead. A week later, a car bomb near a Moscow subway station killed another ten people, and the next day, September 1, Islamist terrorists took hundreds of hostages in a North Ossetia school, including many children. At this writing, scores of people are reported to have died. Far from remaining a... Read more...
BackChannel
· April 2013
40 Teachers from 24 States to Learn about Great Military Leaders in US History
On Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21, 40 high school teachers from 24 states will participate in a conference on "Great Captains in American History," focusing on great American military leaders from General Washington to General Petraeus. This is the 8th conference on topics in American military history sponsored jointly by the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the First Division Museum at Cantigny -- specifically for high school... Read more...
E-Notes
· April 2013
The state of America’s strategic “pivot” or “rebalancing” toward the Asia-Pacific has taken on a renewed importance with the recent North Korean military threats against not only its neighbors in Northeast Asia, but also the United States. Over the last half decade, Washington has trumpeted its foreign policy shift toward the region; but it has become... Read more...
Sideways: America's Pivot and its Military Bases in the Asia-Pacific
Felix K. Chang The state of America’s strategic “pivot” or “rebalancing” toward the Asia-Pacific has taken on a renewed importance with the recent North Korean military threats against not only its neighbors in Northeast Asia, but also the United States. Over the last half decade, Washington has trumpeted its foreign policy shift toward the region; but it has become... Read more...
E-Books, The Philadelphia Papers
· April 2013
21st Century Cultures of War: Advantage Them
Anna SimonsIn the inaugural launch of the FPRI’s new e-publication, The Philadelphia Papers, the anthropologist Anna Simons of the Defense Analysis department at the Naval Postgraduate School, and member of the Orbis Board of Editors, provocatively assesses cultures of war in the 21st century.
BackChannel
· April 2013
Presenting the Spring 2013 Issue of Orbis
The Spring 2013 edition of Orbis addresses a number of timely issues. FPRI Senior Fellow Jakub Grygiel begins by discussing the real meaning of educating for national security. He contends that national security requires more than technical skills. Rather it depends on a solid understanding of, and appreciation for, the state’s civilizational underpinnings—the religious beliefs, political ideals, and moral virtues. An education for national security must start from the desire to learn and... Read more...