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Russian president Vladimir Putin’s actions with regard to the unrest in Ukraine put the Chinese leadership in an exceedingly delicate position. A cornerstone of the country’s foreign policy since 1954 has been its adherence to the Pancha Shila, or Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, with their insistence on non-aggression and non-interference in the sovereign... 
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Last July 9, I commented in an FPRI E-Note on the vast public protests that had just swept Egypt, which culminated in General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s arrest of President Mohamed Morsi on July 3. A wide range of Egyptians demonstrated to restore the country to the path of political and socio-economic democratization longed for in January 2011 but delayed... 
Events in Ukraine are moving fast. What at first appeared to be a token show of force in the Crimea has rapidly evolved into what appears to be an ongoing Russian military intervention into Ukraine -- which only days ago was the subject of optimism after its kleptocratic ex-president, Viktor Yanukovych, was driven from power by Ukrainian... Featured Items
FPRI Scholars on the Latest in Ukraine
In light of the crisis in Ukraine, we're happy to provide you with the following links from FPRI's network of scholars. Read more...
E-Notes
· February 2014
RABAT, Morocco--In the wake of unprecedented Islamist explosions and attacks across North Africa, the foreign ministers of 19 states--including France and much of North Africa—launched an equally unprecedented response. Meeting in Morocco’s capital this past November, they vowed to pool their intelligence efforts against al Qaeda and its salafi fellow... Read more...
Morocco, Counter-Terrorism, and the US-Africa Summit
Ahmed CharaiRABAT, Morocco--In the wake of unprecedented Islamist explosions and attacks across North Africa, the foreign ministers of 19 states--including France and much of North Africa—launched an equally unprecedented response. Meeting in Morocco’s capital this past November, they vowed to pool their intelligence efforts against al Qaeda and its salafi fellow... Read more...
E-Notes, Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs
· February 2014
Defining what precisely is meant by grand strategy and how al Qaeda, in particular, views grand strategy is vital for our national security. In fact, grand strategy is intertwined with every policy debate over al Qaeda that is currently ongoing in Washington, D.C. The questions of what is al Qaeda, and who is al Qaeda have been debated since... Read more...
Attacking America: Al Qaeda’s Grand Strategy in Its War with the World
Mary HabeckDefining what precisely is meant by grand strategy and how al Qaeda, in particular, views grand strategy is vital for our national security. In fact, grand strategy is intertwined with every policy debate over al Qaeda that is currently ongoing in Washington, D.C. The questions of what is al Qaeda, and who is al Qaeda have been debated since... Read more...
E-Notes
· February 2014
President Barack Obama will rub elbows with his counterpart Enrique Peña Nieto when visiting Mexico to attend the North American Summit on February 19. The conclave will take place in Toluca, a colonial city that is only 56 miles from Michoacán, a state which has become a Hobbesian nightmare. Mayhem engulfs much of the state’s Tierra Caliente, a lush... Read more...
MAYHEM IN MICHOACÁN MEXICO
George W. GraysonPresident Barack Obama will rub elbows with his counterpart Enrique Peña Nieto when visiting Mexico to attend the North American Summit on February 19. The conclave will take place in Toluca, a colonial city that is only 56 miles from Michoacán, a state which has become a Hobbesian nightmare. Mayhem engulfs much of the state’s Tierra Caliente, a lush... Read more...
BackChannel
· February 2014
The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Program on the Middle East is pleased to announce the appointment of three new Senior Fellows: Joseph Braude, Brandon Friedman, and Amin Tarzi.
New Senior Fellows Join FPRI’s Middle East Program
The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Program on the Middle East is pleased to announce the appointment of three new Senior Fellows: Joseph Braude, Brandon Friedman, and Amin Tarzi.
E-Notes
· February 2014
Particularly in the past few years, a wide array of pundits, experts and observers of the Arab-Israeli conflict have suggested that the two-state solution is dead. Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest push for peace has not done much, if anything, to temper these opinions. Despite his proclamations—at times ubiquitous in the media—that... Read more...
An Opening for Peace: Israelis, Palestinians and the Two-State Solution
Justin Scott FinkelsteinParticularly in the past few years, a wide array of pundits, experts and observers of the Arab-Israeli conflict have suggested that the two-state solution is dead. Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest push for peace has not done much, if anything, to temper these opinions. Despite his proclamations—at times ubiquitous in the media—that... Read more...
E-Notes
· January 2014
The founder of the International Olympic Committee, Pierre de Coubertin, had a vision that athletic competitions would attenuate geopolitical ones. Sport, he believed, could cut across cultures and thereby foster amity in the international realm. Accordingly, he worked for the revival of the athletic competitions of the ancient Greeks: the Olympic... Read more...
The Geopolitics of Sochi
Michael A. ReynoldsThe founder of the International Olympic Committee, Pierre de Coubertin, had a vision that athletic competitions would attenuate geopolitical ones. Sport, he believed, could cut across cultures and thereby foster amity in the international realm. Accordingly, he worked for the revival of the athletic competitions of the ancient Greeks: the Olympic... Read more...
E-Notes
· January 2014
The conventional wisdom today is that Saudi Arabia will ultimately accept recent U.S. policy decisions that currently it rejects because it has no viable alternatives. While it is true that there is no equivalent to U.S. power, there are certainly alternatives to it. Historically, the Saudis have pursued regional security according to four... Read more...
Alternatives to U.S. Hard Power: The Saudi Response to U.S. Tactics in the Middle East
Brandon FriedmanThe conventional wisdom today is that Saudi Arabia will ultimately accept recent U.S. policy decisions that currently it rejects because it has no viable alternatives. While it is true that there is no equivalent to U.S. power, there are certainly alternatives to it. Historically, the Saudis have pursued regional security according to four... Read more...
E-Notes
· January 2014
U.S. foreign policy is in shambles, characterized by drift and incoherence. It is at best a-strategic at worst anti-strategic, lacking any concept of how to apply limited resources to obtain our foreign policy goals because this administration has articulated no clear goals or objectives to be achieved. The foreign policy... Read more...
Principle and Prudence in American Foreign Policy
Mackubin Thomas OwensU.S. foreign policy is in shambles, characterized by drift and incoherence. It is at best a-strategic at worst anti-strategic, lacking any concept of how to apply limited resources to obtain our foreign policy goals because this administration has articulated no clear goals or objectives to be achieved. The foreign policy... Read more...