America Must Rethink Its Assumptions about Russia
The National Interest I rarely find myself nodding in full agreement with Masha Gessen’s writings, but her critique of...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
America Must Rethink Its Assumptions about Russia
A nation must think before it acts.
Russia
Five Major Challenges Putin’s Russia Will Have to Face in 2017
The Majalla Throughout 2016 Russia made frequent headlines on most global news sites. This infamy was a result of...
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,...
Navigating Russia: Pivots & Resets, Walls & Deals
Abstract Russia has proved a confounding counterpart to American political leaders over the past decade. To the veritable Rubik’s...
National Security Challenges
Abstract The most important national security challenge for the next president will be rebuilding a domestic consensus on America’s...
Editor’s Corner Winter 2017
In These Pages This special issue of Orbis features articles by FPRI associates offering “advice to the next president.”...
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...
The end of an alliance?
The Moshe Dayan Center The simmering Egyptian-Saudi tension burst into full view in mid-October when Egypt voted in favor...