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Drawing on recently declassified documents, John Lehman tells the untold story of the Cold War at sea — and why it matters today. John’s story is also an FPRI story as he got his start here when he was...
Read more »On July 19, Israel’s parliament passed a controversial nation-state law. Designed by its proponents to promote Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, it is seen by its critics there and abroad as fundamentally anti-democratic. In this conversation with Barak...
Read more »Drawing on her book in progress, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day (Oxford University Press), Berman will discuss the recent rise of populism and authoritarianism in Europe, with a look back at...
Read more »This year marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Why did Germany lose the war? What role did the US play in winning the war? How did the war’s ending lead to an even...
Read more »The war in Syria is reaching a decisive point. As the campaign against ISIL winds down, the battle for influence over the final settlement in Syria is heating up. This larger war—geopolitically more consequential than the campaign against ISIL—is...
Read more »In this lecture, FPRI’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall delves deeply into the origins of the American political tradition by exploring the legacies of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and the transmission of these ideas across time and space....
Read more »Juan Zarate served as the Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism from 2005 to 2009, and was the first ever Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes. Zarate sits on several boards, including the...
Read more »In what is heralded as the definitive history of Jimmy Carter’s presidency by a key policy advisor, Eizenstat’s book provides an insider perspective on the successes and failures of the Carter Administration. In this conversation, we will explore Carter’s role in...
Read more »As tensions between the West and East mount, FPRI Senior Fellow Mitchell Orenstein will home in on the geopolitical competition between the European Union and Russia over the lands in between. A specialist in European studies and international political...
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