Apocalypse Chisinau: Identity Politics in Moldova
How much do Moldovan politics rhyme with some of what we’ve seen in Ukraine? FPRI Senior Fellow Ecaterina Locoman...
A nation must think before it acts.
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Dark Heritage: Exploring Memory Building in Estonia
How do we remember tragedies? How do populations construct memories and memory institutions around these events? How can contemporary...
Black Sea Security: The View From Bucharest
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 put the Black Sea region on the map in Washington, DC and...
Two Years After the Fall of Afghanistan – What Have We Learned?
Two years ago this month, Taliban forces rolled into Kabul, completing their takeover of Afghanistan. After 20 years of...
Lessons of Ukraine for the US Army
Clausewitz wrote that the first task of a commander is to establish “the kind of war on which...
Defense 101: Military Basics and the War in Ukraine
Robert Hamilton and Rick Landgraf join Aaron to tackle (almost) every question you were too embarrassed to ask about...
Latvian-Lithuanian Connections from Morta to Modernity
How have Latvian and Lithuanian histories intertwined over the last millennium? Who was Queen Morta, a Latvian princess by...
How Do Wars End?
Have you heard calls for Ukraine and Russia to “just negotiate”? What does theory say about how (and why)...
Changing Tides in the Black Sea Region
The Black Sea region looms increasingly large as the locus of great power, military, political, and economic competition. FPRI’s...
Powderkeg Party: Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
On this special double feature, The Continent visits the Balkans. How do we make sense of continued nationalism, the...