Analysis February 26, 2024 NATO Needs to Get Serious at Seventy-Five NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently arrived in Washington seeking to persuade the White House and Congress to successfully... Read more »
Analysis December 19, 2023 Trends in Terrorism: What’s on the Horizon in 2024? Editor’s Note: This article is the sixth annual “Trends in Terrorism” essay from global counterterrorism expert and FPRI non-resident... Read more »
Analysis November 1, 2023 Between Swords of Iron and the Al Aqsa Deluge: The Regional Politics of the Israel-Hamas War Until October 7, it seemed there was a positive dynamic in the Middle East. A slew of detentes took... Read more »
Analysis October 31, 2023 Peshmerga Reforms: Navigating Challenges, Forging Unity The Peshmerga—“those willing to face death”—a term resonating with Kurdish valor, traces its origins to the twentieth-century struggle for... Read more »
Analysis October 26, 2023 Recentralization Imperils Iraq’s Stability and Fuels Regional Tensions Iraq is at a pivotal juncture, diverging from its post-2003 vision of a federated state as pro-Iranian Shia groups... Read more »
Intern Corner September 12, 2023 Empowering Iraq: The $27 Billion Deal for Iraq’s Energy Sufficiency This past July, Iraq and France’s TotalEnergies finalized the Gas Growth Integrated Project, a $27 billion energy deal aimed... Read more »
Analysis August 31, 2023 Biden’s Bombs: The Dance of Ethics and Interests On July 7, 2023, at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky, operators carefully placed an M55 rocket filled... Read more »
Analysis July 24, 2023 Autonomy Curbed? Kurdish Oil Exports Hit Snags from Turkey and Baghdad Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. ... Read more »
Analysis July 19, 2023 Water and Climate Change Will Shape Iraq-Turkey Relations With Recep Tayyip Erdogan re-elected in May as Turkey’s president for five more years, it is water and related... Read more »
Analysis June 5, 2023 How the European Union Contributes to Turkey’s Anti-Refugee Rhetoric Editor’s Note: FPRI is publishing a collection of essays analyzing Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s victory in the Turkish presidential election in May... Read more »