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Past Events
- FPRI Special Briefing: Rising Tensions in Israel - - Joshua Krasna, Aaron Stein
- Taiwan in the Era of Tsai Ing-wen: Changes and Challenges - - June Teufel Dreyer, Jacques deLisle
- FPRI Booktalk: After Engagement - - Avery Goldstein, Jacques deLisle
- FPRI Special Briefing: U.S. Sanctions Against Russia - - Maia Otarashvili, Chris Miller, Daniel Tannebaum
- The Global Future: Confrontation or Competition - - Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Damjan Krnjevic Miskovic, Amitai Etzioni
- Nigeria and the Nation-State: Rethinking Diplomacy with the Postcolonial World - - Charles A. Ray, John Campbell
- U.S. Policy toward Taiwan: Toward a Stronger U.S.-Taiwan Relationship - - Bonnie Glaser, Rupert Hammond-Chambers, Jacques deLisle
- The Growth of Russian Influence in Africa - - Samuel Ramani, Charles A. Ray, Chris Miller
- China’s Influence over Rare Earth Elements - - June Teufel Dreyer, Saleem H. Ali, Julie Klinger
- Global Issues Facing the New Administration: An FPRI Special Briefing - - Robert D. Kaplan, John A. Nagl
- U.S. Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik BookTalk - - Charles A. Ray, Herman J. Cohen
- The Future of RCEP: an FPRI Briefing - - Jacques deLisle, Shihoko Goto
- What Comes After the Communist Party in China? - - Robert D. Kaplan, Stephen Kotkin
- FPRI Special Briefing: The Ethiopia-Tigray Conflict - - Charles A. Ray, Amb. David Shinn, Emma Boyle, Robert G. Houdek
- Dueling Visions: America’s Role in the World After the 2020 Election - - The Hon. John Hillen, John Gans, John A. Nagl, Carol Rollie Flynn
- America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy - - Ronald J. Granieri, Robert Zoellick
- Election Day 2020: An FIE 2020 Update - - Clint Watts, Rachel Chernaskey, Carol Rollie Flynn
- Emerging Technology and National Security Series, Session 1 - - Lawrence Rubin, Michael Horowitz, Margaret E. Kosal
- Foreign Influence Election 2020 - - Clint Watts, Carol Rollie Flynn
- Estonia and the World: How the First Digital Nation Handles Security and Economy in a Turbulent Era - - Honorable Jonatan Vseviov, Carol Rollie Flynn, Lauren Swartz
- Intelligence Challenges in an Election Year: Briefing Presidential Candidates -
- Battlegrounds: A Book Talk with H.R. McMaster and Robert D. Kaplan - - Robert D. Kaplan, H.R. McMaster
- Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh: What you need to know about the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan - - Dr. Gerard Toal, Dr. John O’Loughlin, Maia Otarashvili
- Abe’s Foreign Policy Legacy - - Jacques deLisle, Sheila A. Smith, Thomas U. Berger
- Transforming Russia’s Ground Forces: Lessons Learned in Syria - - Charles Bartles, Lester Grau, Anna Borshchevskaya
- Eastern Mediterranean Crisis: A Conversation with Israeli Ambassador Shmuel Revel - - Aaron Stein, Ambassador Shmuel Revel
- The Russian Way of War in Syria: The Road to War, Political Objectives, and Military Strategy - - Michael Kofman, Anna Borshchevskaya, Robert E. Hamilton
- Latin America in Great Power Competition - - Maximilian Hess, Barbara Fick, Chris Miller
- FPRI Book Release: Russia’s War in Syria: Assessing Russian Military Capabilities and Lessons Learned - - Chris Miller, Robert E. Hamilton, Aaron Stein, Maia Otarashvili
- Will All Roads Lead to China? - - Robert D. Kaplan, Parag Khanna
- The Ecological Value of America’s Soft Power - - Robert D. Kaplan, Saleem H. Ali
- Belarus Post-Election: Political Unrest Intensifies - - Chris Miller, Katia Glod
- Anatomy of a Spoof: How an Iran-Aligned Disinformation Actor Targeted FPRI - - Adam Rawnsley
- Foreign Influence Election 2020 - - Clint Watts
- Belarus Post-Election Briefing - - Chris Miller, Katia Glod
- Conscious Uncoupling? American Troop Withdrawals and the Future of the West - - Ronald J. Granieri, Hajnalka Vincze, David S. Maxwell
- China’s Security Footprint in Central Asia - - Edward Lemon, Nargis Kassenova, Chris Miller
- Turkish Politics: The Legacy of a Failed Coup - - Lisel Hintz, Selim Koru, Aaron Stein
- Iran’s Foreign Policy: A Balancing Act with Europe, America, and Russia - - Afshon Ostovar, Ariane M. Tabatabai, Alexander Gostev
- Russia’s Constitutional Change and Putinism 3.0 - - Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Chris Miller, Maia Otarashvili
- Why Isn’t Latvia the Next Crimea? Fading Russian Influence in the Baltics - - Una Bergmane, Indra Ekmanis, Maia Otarashvili
- Asia’s New Geopolitics: A Conversation with Michael R. Auslin and Robert D. Kaplan - - Michael R. Auslin, Robert D. Kaplan
- Traitors I Have Known: Counterintelligence’s Role in National Security - - James Olson
- A Tribute to Colin S. Gray (1943–2020) - - Frank G. Hoffman, Geoffrey Sloan, Mackubin Thomas Owens, Ronald J. Granieri
- Battling Disinformation with Realistic Solutions in a Modern Society - - Kenneth D.M. Jensen, Walter Olson
- Assessing North Korea’s COVID-19 Containment and Kim Jong-un’s Political Challenges - - Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
- The End of Xi’s China Dream? Chinese Commentary on COVID-19 - - Jacqueline Deal
- Strategic Conundrums for Minor Players: Europe and the US-China Relationship - - Jeremy Black
- The Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean - - Barbara Fick
- Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu: The Illusion of Unity - - Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud, Michael Koplow
- VIRTUAL Spotlight Seminar: Mobile Missile Vulnerability - - Paul Bracken
- LIVE STREAM: COVID-19’s Impact on the Intelligence Community - - Carol Rollie Flynn
- COVID-19, Netanyahu’s Surprise Political Savior? - - Joshua Krasna
- Israeli Elections: Third Time’s the Charm? - - Joshua Krasna
- Russia’s Southern Strategy: How Moscow Has Made Itself Indispensable for Settling Conflicts Around the Globe - - Nikolas K. Gvosdev
- The American Way of Empire: How America Won a World – But Lost Her Way - - James Kurth
- The Chinese Economy: What to Expect - - Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, Marshall Meyer
- Discussion on Transatlantic Relations - - Ronald J. Granieri
- 2019 China Town Hall - - Edward A. Turzanski
- Russian Federation–East Asia Liquefied Natural Gas Trade Patterns And Regional Energy Security - - Maia Otarashvili, , Dr. Tapan Sarker
- BookTalk: Russia vs the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War - - Mitchell Orenstein
- BookTalk: Jihadism Constrained - - Barak Mendelsohn
- Baltic Independence at 100 - - Stephen Kotkin
- Midterm Elections in Taiwan-and the United States: What Happened and What are the Implications for Taiwan-US-China Relations? - - Jacques deLisle, Elizabeth Freund Larus, Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang, Isaac Stone Fish
- Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao to Xi Jinping - - Sulmaan Khan
- Is Israel Losing Its Soul? - - Barak Mendelsohn
- Stabilizing the Fertile Crescent After the Fall of the Caliphate - - Tally Helfont, Samuel Helfont, Barak Mendelsohn, Assaf Moghadam
- Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News - - Clint Watts
- The Little Known Mission of the US Military in Foreign Affairs: A Peek into the Defense Security Cooperation Agency - - LTG Charles Hooper
- China and the Environment: Challenges at Home and Agendas Abroad - - M. Terry Cooke, Scott Moore, Denise van der Kamp, Jacques deLisle
- Ending the Great War - - John H. Maurer
- Taiwan’s Politics and External Relations: The Tsai Ing-wen / DPP Government at Midterm - - Peter C.Y. Chow, June Teufel Dreyer, Shelley Rigger, Jacques deLisle
- BookTalk: China in the 21st Century - - Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Maura Cunningham
- BookTalk: The Return of Marco Polo’s World - - Robert D. Kaplan
- Strait and Narrower?: Beijing’s Flight Paths, Taiwan’s International Space, and Regional Security - - Jacques deLisle, Scott Kastner, Wojtek Wolfe, Thomas J. Shattuck
- The Vietnam War: Beyond Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s Documentary - - Walter A. McDougall, Mackubin Thomas Owens, Michael M. Novakovic
- BookTalk: American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump - - Hal Brands, Michael P. Noonan
- BookTalk: The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World - - Stewart M. Patrick, John A. Nagl
- BookTalk: Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists - - Vanessa Neumann
- BookTalk: False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East - - Steven A. Cook, Tally Helfont
- Briefing on North Korea - - Lt. General (Ret) In Bum Chun
- Does Democracy Matter? The United States and Global Democracy Support - - Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Adrian A. Basora, Maia Otarashvili
- The Legacy of the Six Day War And Israel’s Domestic Politics Today - - Neri Zilber
- The Use and Abuse of Drones: A Debate - - Michael J. Boyle, Michael Horowitz, Michael P. Noonan
- Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces - - Mark Moyar
- The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America - - Michael Neiberg
- BookTalk: China’s Global Engagement - - Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, Thomas J. Shattuck
- The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region - - Michael R. Auslin
- A Conversation on the Future of Israel and Palestine - - Amb. Maen Rashid Areikat, Alan Luxenberg
- A New Look at the Soviet Collapse - - Chris Miller
- The Holocaust: History and Memory - - Jeremy Black
- How We Misunderstand Egypt - - Aaron Rock-Singer, Tally Helfont
- The Presence of the Past in a Fast-Changing China - - Jeffrey Wasserstrom
- Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun - - June Teufel Dreyer
- The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China - - Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, Guobin Yang
- Cyber War: What It Will Look Like - - Paul J. Springer
- The South China Sea Dispute in the Philippines v. PRC Arbitration: Taiwan’s Concern and Response - - Yann-huei Song
- In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond - - Robert D. Kaplan
- Global Cities as Centers of Commerce, Education and Policy: The Philadelphia Story - - Alan Luxenberg
- The al-Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences - - Barak Mendelsohn
- The Geopolitics of the Russian Far East - - Rensselaer Lee, Artyom Lukin, John R. Haines
- The Threat from Within: Israel’s Extremist Dilemma - - Barak Mendelsohn
- The Right Way to Lose a War: America in the Age of Unwinnable Conflicts - - Dominic Tierney
- Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism - - Benjamin Schwartz
- Think Tanks: Philadelphia Scholars and the DC Policy Connection -
- China’s Challenges - - Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein
- US Security Commitments in Asia’s Changing Strategic Environment: A Look at Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and the Philippines - - Felix K. Chang, Gilbert Rozman, Jacques deLisle
- Transforming Study Abroad - - David Danelo, Eugenia Lee
- War, Words, and Memory: Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Legacy of Its Veterans – A Panel Discussion - - Michael P. Noonan, Ann Marie Roepke, Gregory J. W. Urwin
- The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957 - - Frank Dikotter
- Why the Pursuit of Happiness? - - Alan Charles Kors
- The Problem Of “Green On Blue” Attacks In Afghanistan - - Marc Sageman
- The Boston Bombings: Lessons Learned - - Edward A. Turzanski, Michael A. Reynolds, Clint Watts, Michael Cecire, Trudy Rubin
- U.S.-Taiwan Relations, Cross-Strait Relations and Implications for U.S.-China Relations: A Panel Discussion - - Jacques deLisle, June Teufel Dreyer, James C. Hsiung, Wojtek Wolfe, Andrew J.C. Kao
- The Next Decade of American Foreign Policy - - Dominic Tierney
- Can a Small Organization in Philadelphia Affect the Course of History? - - Alan Luxenberg
- The Art and Science of Doing Geopolitical Travel (Without Getting Killed) - - David Danelo
- Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present - - Max Boot
- The Iraq War: 10 Years Later A Panel Discussion - - David Danelo, Andrew Garfield, Samuel Helfont, James Kurth, Barak Mendelsohn, Michael P. Noonan, Edward A. Turzanski, Walter A. McDougall
- Accountability and Participation without Democracy?: Public Law and Governance in China - - Wang Xixin, Lin Yan, Yuhua Wang, Neysun Mahboubi, Jacques deLisle
- The Problem of Human Trafficking - - Vanessa Neumann, Krista Hoffman, Cheryl Bassett
- The Ongoing Quest for Judicial Independence in Contemporary China - - He Weifang
- Rotary Wing Aviation: A Tale of Two Services, The U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army - - Col. Mark E. Black, Lt. Col. Warren J. Curry
- THE SECOND NUCLEAR AGE: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics - - Paul Bracken
- The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate - - Robert D. Kaplan
- The Coming Prosperity - - Philip Auerswald
- Los Zetas: Mexico’s Most Diabolical Criminal Organization - - George W. Grayson
- China’s Impending Leadership Transition - - Jacques deLisle
- “Why should there be a war with Japan?”: Winston Churchill and Great Britain’s Strategic Predicament during the 1920s - - John H. Maurer
- Cyber Power and International Security - - David J. Betz
- No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn - - Charles Kupchan
- Egypt, Regime Change, and The Muslim Brotherhood - - Tally Helfont, Samuel Helfont, Aaron Rock-Singer, Eric Trager
Associated Multimedia
- Baltic Independence at 100 - - Stephen Kotkin
- Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News - - Clint Watts
- Ending the Great War - - John H. Maurer
- Strait and Narrower?: Beijing’s Flight Paths, Taiwan’s International Space, and Regional Security - - Thomas J. Shattuck
- The Vietnam War: Beyond Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s Documentary - - Michael M. Novakovic
- Do Think Tanks Matter? - - Michael P. Noonan
- BookTalk: American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump - - Michael P. Noonan
- BookTalk: The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World - - John A. Nagl
- BookTalk: Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists - - Vanessa Neumann
- Book Talk: False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East - - Steven A. Cook
- Taiwan’s Participation in International Organizations - - Thomas J. Shattuck
- Briefing on the Situation in North Korea - - Lt. General (Ret) In Bum Chun
- Does Democracy Matter? The United States and Global Democracy Support - - Maia Otarashvili
- The Legacy of the Six Day War And Israel’s Domestic Politics Today - - Neri Zilber
- The Use and Abuse of Drones: A Debate - - Michael J. Boyle
- Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces - - Mark Moyar
- The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America - - Michael Neiberg
- China’s Global Engagement - - Avery Goldstein
- The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region - - Michael R. Auslin
- A Conversation on the Future of Israel and Palestine - - Amb. Maen Rashid Areikat
- Pakistan, Its Neighbors and the US in Strategic Perspective - - Mahmud Ali Durrani
- Jeremy Black on the Turmoil in Europe - - Jeremy Black
- A New Look at the Soviet Collapse - - Chris Miller
- The Holocaust: History and Memory - - Jeremy Black
- Middle Kingdom & Empire of the Rising Sun - - June Teufel Dreyer
- The Internet, Social Media, and A Changing China - - Guobin Yang
- Cyber War: What It Will Look Like - - Paul J. Springer
- Europe in Crisis - - Ronald J. Granieri
- The Geopolitics of the American Revolution - - Jeremy Black
- In Europes’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond - - Robert D. Kaplan
- The al Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences - - Barak Mendelsohn
- The Geopolitics of the Russian Far East - - John R. Haines
- Giving Them the World: Creating Globally-Minded Citizens, One Philadelphian at a Time - - Zabeth Teelucksingh
- The Threat from Within: Israel’s Extremist Dilemma - - Barak Mendelsohn
- The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts - - Dominic Tierney