Understanding Putin in the Shadow of Soviet and Russian History
Why, if Russia is in decline, does Putin seem to be trumping the West? How do the latest events...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Understanding Putin in the Shadow of Soviet and Russian History
A nation must think before it acts.
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The Geopolitics of the American Civil War
Part of the “One Book, One Philadelphia Series” on Cold Mountain Sponsored by the Free Library of Philadelphia...
The Middle East and the Geopolitics of Oil
A decade or more of sub-$60 oil prices will create both economic winners and losers in the Middle East...
Security vs. Liberty in Time of War
Kermit Roosevelt III is the author of the legal thriller, Allegiance (Regan Arts, 2015), a historical novel published...
Where is Venezuela Headed?
Once the longest-running democracy in South America and a very important ally of the United States, Venezuela transformed under...
The Story of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Beyond
Drawing on his new book The al-Qaeda Franchise, Barak Mendelsohn will explore al-Qaeda branching-out strategy, whereby it introduced seven...
Competing with China over the Long Haul
As Jackie Deal writes in a recent essay “the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, while taking care not to cross...
In Europes’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine,...
How We Misunderstand Islam
Sam Helfont, an FPRI Robert A. Fox Fellow, has written a series of essays that explore the differences betweenIslam and Islamism, between...
The al Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences
Over the past decade and a half, al-Qaeda has adopted a branching-out strategy, introducing seven franchises spread over...