Do Think Tanks Matter?
With the release of the annual rankings of think tanks around the world on January 30, more...
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Event and Lecture Media
BookTalk: American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump
It can be argued that the rise of Donald Trump has created more uncertainty about America’s role in the...
BookTalk: The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World
In his new book, Stewart Patrick says that sovereignty is “one of the most frequently invoked, polemical, and misunderstood...
BookTalk: Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
The illegal trade of everyday counterfeit products — a $400 billion a year industry — is a big chunk...
The New Eurasia Energy Landscape
By some measures, Eurasia’s energy landscape has changed more in the past several years than in the previous several...
Thinking About North (and South) Korea
Arguably the most closed society on earth, North Korea has developed a nuclear weapons program and now appears to...
BookTalk: Stalin, Vol.II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928 -1941
Heralded as the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin and the world he lived in, the first volume of...
Assessing Trump’s Trip to Asia
President Donald Trump recently completed a 12-day trip to Asia, with stops in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and...
BookTalk: Nexus of Global Jihad: Understanding Cooperation Among Terrorists
Assaf Moghadam, Director of Academic Affairs, Institute on Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya Interviewed by Barak Mendelsohn, Senior Fellow, FPRI; Associate...
France: Macron’s Balancing Act
At a crucial moment in European history, France went to the polls and elected the young centrist Emmanuel Macron....