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2009 Annual Report and Dinner Booklet
2010 Partnership Events and Annual Dinner
Audio and Video of Robert D. Kaplan on The Rise of Asia and the Future Dimenstions of Conflict
FPRI seeks to bring the best of scholarship to bear on foreign policy issues and emphasizes the importance of public service on behalf of the nation. These two elements are also symbolized by the career of Benjamin Franklin, who devoted himself from an early age to public service and to resolving problems through objective analysis, drawing upon the best knowledge available. Franklin's international career culminated in his role as a diplomat whose work proved crucial in securing American independence. In 2005, on the occasion of FPRI's 50th anniversary and on the eve of Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday, we presented the first annual Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service, to honor Americans whose public service exemplifies the ideals of Benjamin Franklin and the United States. Dr. Henry A. Kissinger was the first honoree, followed by Charles Krauthammer, Philip Zelikow, and John R. Bolton. FPRI's trustees are now pleased to present this award to Robert D. Kaplan.
Robert D. Kaplan is a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He continues to write on a range of foreign policy and national security issues for The Atlantic Monthly and is now writing a book on the future of the Indian Ocean region. His books, several of which were written under grants received through FPRI, include Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground (2007); Imperial Grunts (2005), Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (2000); and Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (1993). Kaplan's essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Army's Special Forces Regiment, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Marines, and has lectured at military war colleges, the FBI, the National Security Agency, the CIA, the Pentagon's Joint Staff, major universities, and business forums. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman calls Kaplan among the four "most widely read" authors defining the post-Cold War era (along with Francis Fukuyama, the late Samuel Huntington, and Yale Professor Paul Kennedy). He has received the U.S. State Department Distinguished Public Service Award, and in July 2009 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed him to the Defense Policy Board.
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