The Strategy of Retrenchment and Its Consequences
Over the past decade or more, leading academic foreign policy realists have argued for US strategic retrenchment. Retrenchment is...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Strategy of Retrenchment and Its Consequences
A nation must think before it acts.
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“A Quarrel In A Far-Away Country”: The Rise Of A Budzhak People’s Republic?
Frustrating former Soviet republics’ ambitions of European Union and NATO accession underlies Russia’s instrumental use of territorial disputes—both historic...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Who Will Benefit?
Few international economic initiatives have aroused as much controversy as China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). First bruited in...
The Geopolitics of the Nuclear Negotiations with Iran
In a provocative sliver of a book, The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East, which was published before...
The Case of Poland’s Stolen Radiological Material
“The important measure is not the targets destroyed but rather the effect on the enemy’s capabilities and actions.” -David...
Geopolitics, Con and Pro
Orbis is the quarterly journal of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, which was founded six decades ago this year...
Russia, Iran, and the (Increasingly) Lonely Superpower
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness. -Ferdinand Marcos There is no loneliness greater than the...
There Is Still Time to Keep Afghanistan from Going the Way of Iraq – If Drawdown Plans are Significantly Modified
On October 1, 2014, the Obama Administration announced that it had concluded a long-awaited Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with...
Lithuania Prepares for Hybrid War
The more powerful enemy can be vanquished…by the most thorough, careful, attentive, skillful, and obligatory use of any—even the...
Between Two Fires: Ukraine Amidst Transdniestria and the Donbas
God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us are...