Benjamin Franklin and the Crisis of the British Empire
In this talk, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Walter A. McDougall will explore the nature of the crisis that led to...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Benjamin Franklin and the Crisis of the British Empire
A nation must think before it acts.
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Rebuilding Iraq’s Public Works Infrastructure Following the Defeat of ISIS
This report studies the challenges of rebuilding Iraq’s public works infrastructure following the “perfect storm” of the ISIS insurgency...
Where did the Founders Get their Ideas? America’s Machiavellian Moment and the Origins of the Atlantic Republican Tradition
What does it mean to speak of American Exceptionalism? If it just means unique, then the claim is unexceptional...
Islamists and Autocrats: What the Next Administration Needs to Know about Egypt
Usually we think of Egypt's political future as a contest between secular autocrats, on the one hand, and Islamists,...
Foresight into 21st Century Conflict: End of the Greatest Illusion?
The number of conflicts is again on the rise as both states and violent actors contend for influence and...
Great War at Sea: Remembering the Battle of Jutland
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the largest sea fight of the First World War, a clash between...
The Best of FPRI’s Essays on Asia, 2005-2015
In the sixty years since the founding of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, no region of the world has...
The Best of FPRI’s Essays on National Security, 2005-2015
Matters of national security have concerned the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) ever since its founding in 1955. They...
Parliament without Politics: The Effort to Consolidate Authoritarian Rule
Introduction General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Egypt’s ruler since July 2013, brooks no dissent. Having “saved” Egypt from the Muslim Brothers,...
Where the Lions Are — Gazprom’s “Energetic Pliers” and Aspirations of a Eurasian Archipelago: The Geopolitics of Russia’s Networked Energy Infrastructure
“I sit on a man’s back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others...