The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest
In his latest book, The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest, FPRI’s...
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Stanley and Arlene Ginsburg Lecture Series
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance
Seventy-five years ago, the Grand Alliance that would defeat Nazi Germany was forged, and three towering world leaders –...
The National Security Challenges Facing the Next President
The world is more complicated than ever, and the challenges facing the United States more numerous than ever: a revanchist...
The Two-State Solution: Dream or Delusion?
It has been said of the two-state solution that it is a terrible idea for resolving the Israel-Palestine...
An Exploration of the “Anthropocene”: The Impact of Humans on Planet Earth
This talk considers the concept of the Anthropocene, a geologic era defined by human influence. The arrival and evolution...
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...
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...
Erasing Borders and Exporting Terror: The Middle East in the Age of the Islamic State
States collapsing, militant extremism on the rise, nuclear proliferation in the offing, an increasingly predominant Iran, emerging alliances of...
A New Cold War? The West and Russia
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the prospect of protracted confrontation between Russia and the West has so far...
Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy
In this booktalk, a foremost expert on the Middle East examines Iran’s current nuclear potential and charts America’s future...