“We have been lax in tackling Jewish terrorism,” said Israeli President Reuven Rivlin this week in response to the attacks at the gay pride parade and then the firebombing of a home in the West Bank, resulting in the...

In a ground-breaking article published in May, FPRI Senior Fellow John Haines argued, paradoxically, that Iran has had a nuclear weapons program for decades — and, at the same time, that it has not. What is the meaning of this paradox?...

For a century, the United States steadily accumulated a string of military triumphs. But since 1945 the onslaught of failures and stalemates in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan has exposed the country’s inability to change course after battlefield setbacks—with...

With the World Trade Organization process stalled, efforts to create a more open order for international trade and investment have turned to regional agreements.  The most ambitious of these in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which will include the U.S., Japan...

Sponsored by BNY Mellon Wealth Management Fourteen years after the 9/11 attacks the world remains a dangerous place. Moving forward, however, what will be the biggest threats to U.S. national security? Will threats posed by terrorists, transnational criminal enterprises,...

China’s growing military and economic clout appears to have unnerved its neighbors, possibly setting it on a collision course with them and the US. How to assess China’s rise and its geopolitical impact? To answer these questions and more, we...

Is there an Obama Doctrine in foreign policy?  And can we expect there to be alternative approaches to marshaling American power that will help shape the foreign policy debate in the run-up to the 2016 elections? To answer these questions...

This talk surveyed the Western foreign fighter phenomenon in ISIS. It featured research on the recruitment and motivations of foreign fighters and presented interviews showing their testimony. This talk was given the May 2, 2015 Teachers’ Workshop on Islam in the...

The horrific Chapel Hill incident demonstrated the ongoing and heightened predicament that US Muslims face. While the US has a much better record on Muslim incorporation than Europe, there still remain significant challenges. This presentation looked at both the challenges...

Islam’s encounter with the Western Europe is a historical process that did not start with the 19th century colonization of North Africa. This talk , therefore, stressed long-standing interactions between Europeans and Muslims. It also raised the issue of secularism...