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Join FPRI for a reception and conversation with Ankit Panda, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about his recent book, The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon (Polity, 2025), and the changing landscape of...
Read more »Please join FPRI’s Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics, Robert D. Kaplan to discuss his new book Waste Land (Random House, 2025). As in much of his work, Kaplan looks to history, literature, politics and philosophy to interpret our world,...
Read more »Join Robert D. Kaplan, internationally recognized geopolitical expert, renowned author, and FPRI’s Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics, for Great Thinkers In Realism and Geopolitics, a stimulating seminar about the unspoken truths that have, and always will, determine world politics....
Read more »FPRI is excited to present Robert D. Kaplan to discuss his new book The Loom of Time. In his latest book, The Loom of Time, Robert D. Kaplan makes the case for realism as an approach to the Greater Middle East....
Read more »Almost 10 years on, China’s Belt and Road Initiative continues to serve as a pillar of Xi Jinping’s foreign policy. How has the initiative evolved? What geopolitical factors are shaping Beijing’s policies? Why are some recipient countries experiencing buyer’s...
Read more »Reports of a possible South African arms transfer to Russia, coming on the heels of a joint South Africa-China-Russia naval exercise and South Africa’s increasingly ambivalent stance on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, threaten to damage the US-South Africa...
Read more »Project 2049 Institute book launch discussion of “The Final Struggle: Inside China’s Global Strategy” by Ian Easton...
Read more »Atlantic Council Discussion of “America Second: How America’s elites are making China stronger” by Isaac Stone Fish...
Read more »U.S. policy toward China is at an inflection point. How will the two countries tackle issues affecting their relationship, and how will this relationship shape overall international relations for years to come? Join FPRI’s Jacques deLisle, and his co-author...
Read more »Major geoeconomic issues like Brexit, the pandemic, and the advent of blockchain digital currencies have impacted more than just U.S. economic policy. They have caused shockwaves across the world affecting foreign trade, foreign policy, and even international sporting competitions...
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