A Lecture given as part of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Middle East History Institute on “Teaching About Israel and Palestine” on October 25-26, 2014 in Philadelphia....

Cosponsored by the Project on Democratic Transitions and the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center Negative experiences from state-building projects in Iraq and Afghanistan, the mixed record of the post-communist revolutions and the aftermath of Arab Spring have...

A quarter century after the fall of communism throughout the former Soviet empire, democracy has lost much of the ground it had seemed to gain during the 1990’s. In retrospect, Ukraine’s 2004 “Orange Revolution” was the high water mark...

One of America’s – more precisely, one of Philadelphia’s — greatest contributions to the world is freedom of conscience, the idea that people should be free to practice their religion – or not to practice at all.  Today, as...

Hosted and Cosponsored by Gwen Borowsky, CEO, National Liberty Museum 5:30 p.m. Registration; 5:45 p.m. Lecture Earlier this year, Clinton Watts described ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) as the most dangerous terrorist group in the world, bar...

Jordan, the key U.S. ally bordering territories held by the Islamic State and comprising a central part of its desired Sunni empire, is precariously situated on the frontline of the ISIL’s violent campaign. Ironically, one of ISIL’s predecessor organizations,...

The world’s largest democracy, India has just completed the world’s most complex national elections, and those elections have produced a political revolution. The landslide victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Narendra Modi signals a major shift...

Part of the Stanley and Arlene Ginsburg Lecture Series For more than a decade, America has been waging a new kind of war against the financial networks of rogue regimes, proliferators, terrorist groups, and criminal syndicates. Juan Zarate, a...

Despite their longevity, the mutual security arrangements between the United States and its Asian partners are now under increased scrutiny on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.  These products of the Cold War were created under conditions that have...

In this session of Geopolitics, Granieri and deLisle engage in a broad-ranging discussion of China’s domestic politics, its economic future, the prospects for reform, key human rights issues, disputes with virtually all of its neighbors, the perpetual issue of...