A nation must think before it acts.
For Expert Commentary on the Boston Marathon Bombings
The Foreign Policy Research Institute is making its scholars available to provide expert commentary on the events surrounding the Boston Marathon Bombings, including the national security implications, and background on the geopolitical context of the suspects’ nationalities.
Edward Turzanski is the FPRI John Templeton Fellow and serves as Co-Chairman of its Center for the Study of Terrorism. Turzanski is a Professor of Political Science and History at La Salle University in Philadelphia, and a Senior Scholar with the American Institute for History Education (AIHE). His research focus includes Intelligence and Espionage, Terrorism and Counterterrorism, U.S. National Security Policy, the American Presidency, and Social and Cultural Commentary. He has extensive experience in the US intelligence community, with service in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Lawrence Husick is Co-Chairman of FPRI’s Center for the Study of Terrorism where he concentrates on the study of terrorist tactics and counterterrorism strategies, with a particular focus on technology leverage as a defining characteristic of the modern terrorist. He is also co-director of the FPRI Wachman Center’s Program on Teaching Innovation and a faculty member at the Whiting Graduate School of Engineering and the Zanvyl-Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Biotechnology Program of the Johns Hopkins University.
David Satter is an FPRI Senior Fellow, a former Moscow correspondent, and a longtime observer of Russia and the former Soviet Union. The author of three books on the subject, he has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and several think tanks. Satter is also a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Vladislav Zubok is an FPRI Senior Fellow and co-Chair of its Hertog Program in Grand Strategy. He is a professor in History at Temple University and a Research Fellow and Summer Projects Organizer (by correspondence), the National Security Archive, at George Washington University. Professor Zubok is available to give background on Chechens and the rise of Chechen terrorism.
About the Foreign Policy Research Institute
The Foreign Policy Research Institute was founded in Philadelphia in 1955 on the premise that “a nation should think before it acts,” as founder Robert Strausz-Hupe put it. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, FPRI is devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests. We add perspective to events by fitting them into the larger historical, cultural, geographical context of international politics.