Advice for the Incoming Administration
In the Fall 2024 issue of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s journal Orbis, we feature several articles that...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Advice for the Incoming Administration
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Revisiting Orbis
Space as a Foreign Policy Issue: Views from Orbis Contributors
On November 13, 2024, the Foreign Policy Research Institute will present Jared Isaacman with the 18th Annual Benjamin Franklin...
Looking Out Over the Next Four Years
A longer version of this piece, “National Security and the Next Four Years,” will appear in the Fall 2024...
After 75? Wither NATO?
Revisiting Orbis Article: Elbridge Colby and Ian Brzezinski, “How NATO Manages the ‘Bear’ and the ‘Dragon,’” Orbis 65:1 (Winter...
Can the United States Navigate a “Network of Partnerships”?
Revisiting Orbis Articles: Ash Jain and Matthew Kroening, “Ally Shoring: A New Tool of Economic Statecraft,” Orbis 67:1 (2023)...
The Realist Case for Ukraine
Editor’s Note: The Russian invasion of Ukraine was the most significant geopolitical event of 2022. Beginning with Dov Zakheim’s...
‘Let’s Make a Deal’? Ukraine and the Poor Prospects for Negotiations with Putin
Editor’s note: The Russian invasion of Ukraine has arguably been the most significant geopolitical event of 2022. Beginning with...
Déjà Vu: Coping with Conventional Aggression in a Nuclear Context
Original Orbis piece: Alvin J. Cottrell and James E. Dougherty, “Nuclear Weapons, Policy and Strategy,” Orbis 1:1 (April 1957)...
Baltic Sea Mining as an Extension of the Russian Gray Zone
Editor’s note: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and renewed interest on the part of both Finland and Sweden to consider...
The Invasion of Ukraine Shows China’s Inability to Lead
Editor’s note: Arthur Waldron, writing in Orbis in spring 2019, offered his “Reflections on China’s Need for a ‘Chinese...