Analysis March 20, 2026 Would You Fight For Your Country? The Most and Least Willing Among NATO Allies By: Māris Andžāns This piece is part of The Ties That Bind, a project on NATO’s role in the global security landscape. If a war were to break out, would you be willing to fight for your country? This is a shortened... Read more	Analysis March 18, 2026 China’s Political Warfare: Challenges to Taiwan and the United States in Latin America By: Henry Large Throughout Latin America, China is engaging in a unique form of political warfare—employing, per FPRI’s definition, “elements of national power including cyber, economic, financial, informational, paramilitary, and political statecraft tools short of declared war… to achieve political goals.” While... Read more	Analysis March 6, 2026 From Tehran to Donbas: What the Iran War Means for Russia and Ukraine By: Robert Person The sudden outbreak of war in in Iran has snapped the world’s attention away from Eastern Europe toward the Persian Gulf and wider Middle East. Yet for Ukraine, the implications of this new conflict are anything but peripheral. The... Read more
Expert Commentary March 5, 2026 FPRI Experts React \| Understanding the Third Gulf War By: Aaron Stein, Emma Salisbury, Sam Lair, Michael B. Petersen, Guy Plopsky The third Gulf War began with an assassination on February 28, 2026, in broad daylight in central Iran. The war has engulfed the region in conflict, extending from neighboring Gulf Arab countries to the waters just off Sri Lanka.... Read more	Analysis March 5, 2026 Better Late Than Never, US and Allies Race toward Ukrainian Counter-Shahed Tech By: Joshua Segal This piece is part of Behind the Front, an FPRI project on the future of US and allied national defense. The idea that an Iranian Shahed drone could strike the US Navy’s nerve center in Bahrain during daylight hours,... Read more	Analysis March 2, 2026 Czech President, New Government in Early Power Struggle By: Robert Beck In an interview on Feb. 1, 2026 on the popular Czech television political commentary series “Questions with Vaclav Moravec,” Petr Macinka, the Czech foreign minister and head of the government’s junior coalition party Motorists for Themselves (Motoristé sobě), declared... Read more
Expert Commentary February 28, 2026 FPRI Experts React \| Renewed Conflict in Iran By: Aaron Stein, Afshon Ostovar, Emily Holland, Sam Lair, Mohammed A. Salih, Shihoko Goto Aaron Stein, President After declaring Iran’s nuclear program obliterated after Operation Midnight Hammer, the US has returned to finish the job. The backdrop for this renewed air campaign is complicated, but worth fleshing out to understand the implications for... Read more	Conversations February 13, 2026 In Conversation with Roland Theis \| Germany Rearms By: Aaron Stein, Roland Theis The following conversation was recorded on February 5, 2026 and has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the conversation here. Aaron Stein: Hello and welcome. Today I’m joined by Roland Theis. He is a member of the... Read more	Podcasts February 13, 2026 Understanding Berlin’s Security Environment Welcome back to the Ties That Bind, a project of the Foreign Policy Research Institute examining the past, present, and future of NATO and the transatlantic relationship. This season we examine how Western European NATO members like Germany are... Read more