Iran, Russia, and the Taliban: Reassessing the Future of the Afghan State
The first combat zone utilization of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) device by the U.S. forces in...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Iran, Russia, and the Taliban: Reassessing the Future of the Afghan State
A nation must think before it acts.
Iran
Field of Fright
When Michael Flynn (with Michael Ledeen assisting) published The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War...
Executive Order 13769: America at Its Best and Its Worst
The boat held 907 passengers, refugees fleeing war and religious persecution. Denied permission to land in the United States,...
Tillerson the Realist
Last week, President-elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, underwent Senate confirmation hearings. Venues...
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,...
Editor’s Corner Winter 2017
In These Pages This special issue of Orbis features articles by FPRI associates offering “advice to the next president.”...
Re-Shuffling of the Cards in Lebanon: Meet the New Government
The end of 2016 brought important changes in Lebanon. Michel Aoun’s election in October finally ended the destabilizing presidential...
Sectarianism and War in Iraq and Syria
In mid-December 2016, outgoing U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon referred to Aleppo as a “synonym for hell“ and...
Resolution Convolutions
The State of Israel, and the U.S.-Israeli relationship, now stand before new perils—potentially quite serious ones. You might suppose...
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...