Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Next American President
Foreign policy plays a paradoxical role in U.S. presidential elections. As a global power with historically unparalleled influence, the...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Next American President
A nation must think before it acts.
Iran
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The Foreign Policy Views of Donald Trump
The foreign policy views of the Republican nominee Donald Trump have been called dangerous, treasonous, confused – and that’s...
Kanan Makiya and the Rejection of Victimhood
Exiled from his homeland and with a notorious intelligence agency attempting to assassinate him, one could excuse Makiya for...
Damaging Democracy: The U.S., Fethullah Gülen, and Turkey’s Upheaval
In this startling essay on the attempted coup in Turkey, FPRI senior fellow and prize-wining Princeton historian Michael Reynolds...
How Does the Syrian Civil War End for Hezbollah?
The recent ceasefire agreement between the United States and Russia in Syria requires the policy-making community to evaluate how...
What Happened to the “Resistance Axis”?
The American Interest Ten years ago, the Resistance Axis (mihwar al-muqawama)—an alliance between Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas against...
Putin Doubles Down in Syria
A year ago, President Obama opined that Russian intervention in Syria would turn into a quagmire. One year later,...
The Twenty Years’ War
Exactly two decades ago, on August 23, 1996, Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States. At the...
Putting Nuclear Security in Historical Perspective
Books in Review William J. Perry, My Journey at the Nuclear Brink (Stanford University Press, 2015). Brad Roberts, The...
The Arab World (Finally!) Proclaims Hezbollah a Terrorist Organization
March 2, 2016 is the day that (finally !) heralded official recognition of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization by...