Trump and Taiwan: A Fresh Start or a Turn for the Worse?
From the beginning of the 2016 presidential campaign season, it was clear that the Republican Party envisioned changes in...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Trump and Taiwan: A Fresh Start or a Turn for the Worse?
A nation must think before it acts.
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Tillerson the Realist
Last week, President-elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, underwent Senate confirmation hearings. Venues...
The Rise and Fall of the BRICS?
The post-Cold War world defined by the spread of Euro-Atlantic institutions, practices, and values across the rest of the...
Revisiting the Iran Nuclear Deal
Abstract One of Donald Trump’s stated priorities when he becomes President is to kill the Nuclear Deal with Iran,...
Responding to China’s Rising Sea Power
Abstract America’s next president must embrace risk to cope with rising Chinese sea power. The incoming administration should pivot...
Managing Sino-American Relations
Abstract Past Chinese policy has proved deficient in managing the Sino-American relationship. Your administration should break with past assumptions,...
Editor’s Corner Winter 2017
In These Pages This special issue of Orbis features articles by FPRI associates offering “advice to the next president.”...
The Tragedy of Obama’s Foreign Policy
Current History During his first campaign for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama held out the promise of a...
Looking Back a Quarter Century after the USSR’s Collapse
On 7:32pm on December 25, 1991, a red flag with a golden hammer and sickle was lowered for the...
South Korea’s Lurking Dangers: From Impeachment to Foreign Policy Paralysis
South Korea is marooned in perilous seas with its ship in more danger of careening off course than at...