FPRI News
April 18, 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 teachers. The conference will be held at the First Division Museum in Wheaton, IL.
Read more...April 10, 2013
FPRI’s Rens Lee to Testify Before Congress
On Tuesday, April 16, FPRI Senior Fellow Rens Lee will testify before the House Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, which is holding a hearing on China's Rapid Political and Economic Advances in Central Asia and Russia. Rens Lee is author of an essay in the current Spring issue of Orbis on China's growing role in the Russian Far East.
April 8, 2013
Presenting the Philadelphia Papers
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 policy import.
April 1, 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 understand one’s own national culture and tradition to be able to identify what one is supposed to defend.
Read more...April 1, 2013
Message from the President · Apr 2013
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to inform you that FPRI’s Annual Champagne Brunch at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, sponsored by Beneficial Bank, will feature an address by Jeremy Black, the renowned British historian, on the state of Europe – from the financial crisis to the plethora of secession issues to the revelation of critical military shortages. What to make of these multiple crisies? And what do they mean for us?
Read more...March 21, 2013
FPRI on CSpan
This event will be broadcast on CSpan 3 the weekend of March 23-34
Saturday March 23 at 9 am ET
Sunday March 24 at 4 pm ET
or you can watch anytime on the CSpan website.
The FPRI Symposium
Read more...March 1, 2013
Message from the President · Mar 2013
Friends of FPRI,
Just a short note to let you know that the creator of the original Firing Line has asked us to use another name for our monthly discussion program modeled on Firing Line, and we have decided to respect that request. The new name of the program is "Geopolitics with Ron Granieri," reflecting FPRI's approach to understanding contemporary international affairs through the study of history, geography, and culture - or, as FPRI Senior Fellow James Kurth has put it, through interpreting “the realities and mentalities of the localities.”
Read more...January 28, 2013
FPRI Named Top U.S. Think Tank under $5 Million
PHILADELPHIA -– The Foreign Policy Research Institute was recently named as the nation’s top think tank with a budget under $5 Million, and 19th in the world according to the 2012 Global Go To Think Tank Index. Overall, FPRI ranked as the 33rd best think tank in the U.S.
Read more...January 16, 2013
The Stanley and Arlene Ginsburg Lecture Series Winter–Spring 2013
January 11, 2013
Announcing a Panel Discussion on the Problem of Human Trafficking
More than 20 million individuals are currently being exploited worldwide as sex slaves, forced labor, or as child brides and soldiers. Despite the best efforts of governments, NGOs, and law enforcement agencies, global criminal networks have turned this modern-day slave trade into a $32 billion-a-year business. On February 4, 2013, join panelists Vanessa Neumann (FPRI), Krista Hoffman (Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape), and Cheryl Bassett (DHS' Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center) as we examine the roots of this issue, discuss how these networks operate, and determine what can be done to eradicate human trafficking both at home and abroad.
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