Book Talk: False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East
Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for...
A nation must think before it acts.
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BookTalk: A History of Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Middle East
In her new book from Cambridge University Press, Heather Sharkey explores the history of day-to-day relations between Muslims,...
Does America Need an Enemy?
Existential enemies have a way of uniting a country. Could America’s current state of division be related to the...
Taiwan’s Participation in International Organizations
Increased efforts by Beijing to limit, and reduce, Taiwan’s international space have made the question of Taiwan’s opportunities...
Briefing on the Situation in North Korea
In cooperation with UPenn’s Center for East Asian Studies, the Foreign Policy Research Institute hosted a briefing on the...
Is There a U.S. Middle East Policy?
The Middle East is rife with conflict. States appear to be breaking down, and extremism is on the march....
Putinomics: The Price of Power in Russia
The Kremlin has managed to deploy power so ruthlessly at home and abroad in part because of its surprising...
Conservatism in the Age of Trump
The election of Donald Trump is both cause and effect of a scrambled American political landscape. Trump’s...
The Crucial Connection between China’s Economy and Its Foreign Policy
In the past, concerns raised by China’s bad debt bubbles have triggered no alarms, in large part, because of...
Does Democracy Matter? The United States and Global Democracy Support
Confidence in the future of democracy has been shaken by the authoritarian resurgence of the past decade, and...