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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For a full list of speakers please click here The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most recent, and a highly ambitious, step along a familiar road of international economic liberalization and integration through multilateral trade-plus pacts.  It promised to deepen...

In his new book from Oxford University Press, Samuel Helfont investigates the roots of the religious insurgencies which erupted in Iraq following the American-led invasion in 2003. This book relies on access to the former regime’s internal archives and secret...

Before joining CSBA, Toshi Yoshihara held the John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies at the U.S. Naval War College where he taught strategy for over a decade. Yoshihara has testified before the Defense Policy Board, the House Foreign Affairs...

Another type of form of military engagement conducted by the U.S. military with allies and friends abroad is the provision of military assistance in the forms of combined training, equipping, and the conduct of side-by-side operations. This presentation will...

Managing the global post-911 battlefield has been a particular challenge for the American military. This presentation will examine the role of traditional military units in this particularly non-traditional fight....

Victory on the battlefield in Afghanistan and Iraq did not automatically bring peace. This presentation will examine how the First Division and other units have managed the challenges of counterinsurgency, the “Savage Wars of Peace” that come after the...

Military units such as the First Division have also played vital roles in delivering humanitarian assistance and supporting peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations. This presentation will look at several important peacekeeping operations in the 1990s and early 2000s....

While the First Division did not take part in the initial invasion of Iraq the warfighting conducted by US, British, and other coalition forces during 2003 are important historical examples of “Battle” in U.S. military history. This presentation will...