Geopoliticus March 20, 2018 What Poker Tells Us about ISIS’s Changing Strategy Discussions concerning the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have lately shifted to when, rather than if, the... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 6, 2017 Intra-GCC Rift Redux Monday, June 5 marked the official re-ignition of the intra-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) rift, centered once again on Qatari... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 2, 2017 Comments on Iraq: Where Do We Go From Here? On May 18, 2017, FPRI hosted a Main Line Briefing on Iraq: Where Do We Go From Here. The... Read more »
Geopoliticus August 15, 2016 Donald Trump on ISIS: Being Wrong, and Saying It Wrong, Too Is it the nature of things that action should partake of exact truth less than speech? -Socrates, The Republic... Read more »
Geopoliticus April 3, 2016 Why the US doesn’t have a Muslim problem, and Europe does I’m first generation American, with a Pakistani-born father. My dad and his older brother both left Pakistan at the... Read more »
Geopoliticus February 10, 2016 Silicon Valley Meets The Snake Eaters: State Department’s Countermessaging Goes Back To The Future “Bring in folks from Silicon Valley and Madison Avenue….” That’s right, the three sexiest characters in modern lore, ad... Read more »
Geopoliticus February 2, 2016 President Obama’s Last State of the Union Speech: An FPRI Primer Tonight, President Obama will deliver the last State of the Union Address of his presidency. This prime time speech... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 13, 2015 Who Conducted the Paris Attacks & Stormed the Bataclan Theater? ISIS? Al Qaeda? *Posted on 13 November 2015, 1900 hours EST* Information regarding the Paris Attacks on Friday night November 13th remain limited... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 15, 2015 Four Key Drivers For Eroding ISIS June 15, 2015 Scary ISIS headlines have saturated media outlets in recent months. They usually come in three varieties:... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 25, 2015 Are We Our Own Worst Enemy? The Problems in Countering Jihadi Narratives and How to Fix Them Two weeks back, the Washington Post published the most insightful article to date on the challenges the U.S. government... Read more »