Revisiting Orbis

  In the Fall 2024 issue of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s journal Orbis, we feature several articles that offer practical advice to the incoming administration on how to improve the national security decision-making process. John Mauk offers guidance...

On November 13, 2024, the Foreign Policy Research Institute will present Jared Isaacman with the 18th Annual Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service. Isaacman served as commander of Inspiration4, the first private human spaceflight in which none of the...

A longer version of this piece, “National Security and the Next Four Years,” will appear in the Fall 2024 issue of Orbis. As much as a president will want to remake the government according to new policies or have...

 Revisiting Orbis Article:  Elbridge Colby and Ian Brzezinski, “How NATO Manages the ‘Bear’ and the ‘Dragon,’” Orbis 65:1 (Winter 2021) This July, leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will convene in Washington for a historic 75th anniversary...

Revisiting Orbis Articles: Ash Jain and Matthew Kroening, “Ally Shoring: A New Tool of Economic Statecraft,” Orbis 67:1 (2023) Jada Fraser and Mohammed Soliman, “The Quad, AUKUS and I2U2 Formats: Major Lessons from Minilaterals,” Orbis 67:3 (2023)   Speaking...

Editor’s Note: The Russian invasion of Ukraine was the most significant geopolitical event of 2022. Beginning with Dov Zakheim’s comments in the Spring 2022 issue, Orbis authors have discussed the ramifications of the invasion. As we approach the one-year anniversary, Revisiting Orbis will...

Editor’s note: The Russian invasion of Ukraine has arguably been the most significant geopolitical event of 2022. Beginning with Dov Zakheim’s comments in the Spring 2022 issue, Orbis authors have discussed the ramifications of the invasion. As we approach...

Original Orbis piece: Alvin J. Cottrell and James E. Dougherty, “Nuclear Weapons, Policy and Strategy,” Orbis 1:1 (April 1957) Focus of the original piece: The authors, in assessing the evolution of U.S. defense strategy since the end of World...

Editor’s note: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and renewed interest on the part of both Finland and Sweden to consider formal membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has brought new scrutiny to security threats in the Baltic Sea basin....

Editor’s note: Arthur Waldron, writing in Orbis in spring 2019, offered his “Reflections on China’s Need for a ‘Chinese World Order.”’ This essay from Shay Stautz examines how those aspirations have fared in the wake of Russia’s invasion of...