Conversations December 4, 2025 In Conversation with Linda Ozola \| Latvia’s Crisis Management and Civil Defense By: Natalia Kopytnik, Linda Ozola The following conversation was recorded on November 17, 2025, and has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the conversation here. Natalia Kopytnik: I’m very pleased to welcome Miss Linda Ozola, former Deputy Mayor of Riga and... Read more	Conversations December 3, 2025 In Conversation with Maris Andzans \| Latvia’s Cooperation with NATO By: Natalia Kopytnik, Māris Andžāns The following conversation was recorded on October 7, 2025, and has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the conversation here. Natalia Kopytnik: Hello, everyone. My guest today is Dr. Māris Andžāns, the director of the Center for... Read more	Conversations November 25, 2025 In Conversation with Ieva Berzina \| Latvia’s Threat Perception By: Natalia Kopytnik, Ieva Berzina The following conversation was recorded on October 7, 2025, and has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the conversation here. Natalia Kopytnik: Hi everyone, I’m honored to welcome Dr. Ieva Berzina to the podcast today. Dr. Berzina... Read more
Intern Corner November 18, 2025 I-See-BMs: Chinese Nuclear Policy Under Xi Jinping By: Xi Teng (XT) Tay In 2021, open-source intelligence efforts revealed a surprising discovery using commercial satellite imagery: China was building at least two silo fields for nuclear missiles. By 2022, a third field was identified. Intelligence experts even speculated that a field in... Read more	Reports November 14, 2025 Drones and Mass Salvo Attacks: Lessons Learned from the American Defense of Israel By: Aaron Stein On a cool night in April 2024, the Iranian military surprised American and coalition war planners. It launched a massive salvo of drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles at Israel, following an Israeli air attack on an Iranian... Read more	Conversations November 13, 2025 In Conversation with Oana Lungescu \| Lessons from NATO’s Principal Spokesperson By: Natalia Kopytnik, Oana Lungescu This conversation was recorded on October 9, 2025, and the transcript has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the conversation here. Natalia Kopytnik: It’s really an honor to welcome our guest today, Ms. Oana Lungescu. Oana served... Read more
FPRI News November 10, 2025 FPRI Appoints Emily Holland Director of the Eurasia Program The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is pleased to welcome Dr. Emily Holland as the Director of its Eurasia Program. Emily Holland comes to FPRI from the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the United States Naval War College,... Read more	Analysis November 10, 2025 Syria’s Fragile Transition and the Enduring Minority Question By: Mohammed A. Salih Nearly a year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime at the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its rebel allies in December 2024, Syria remains in a fragile and uncertain transition. A mosaic of ethnic and religious... Read more	Analysis November 7, 2025 The Feudalization of Mali By: Raphael Parens, Delina Goxho Bamako is living on the precipice. Nervous hotel owners complain about a lack of electricity, but this time it’s worse than usual. In the landlocked capital of the Sahelian country of Mali, business owners have grown accustomed to frustratingly... Read more