Analysis

The ongoing military conflict involving Iran, Israel, and the United States has once again exposed that war and conflict not only carry significant human costs but also reveal deep structural vulnerabilities in the global economic and energy systems. The...

This piece is part of The Ties That Bind, a project on NATO’s role in the global security landscape. If a war were to break out, would you be willing to fight for your country? This is a shortened...

Does Canada neglect the African continent? This question was raised in a 2026 interview with Radio-Canada by Amina Gerba, a Quebec senator and business leader whose public work has long emphasized the strategic importance of Canada’s engagement with Africa....

Throughout Latin America, China is engaging in a unique form of political warfare—employing, per FPRI’s definition, “elements of national power including cyber, economic, financial, informational, paramilitary, and political statecraft tools short of declared war… to achieve political goals.” While...

This piece is part of Behind the Front, an FPRI project on the future of US and allied national defense. On the morning of April 14, 1988, the USS Samuel B. Roberts, an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate cruising through...

This piece is part of Behind the Front, an FPRI project on the future of US and allied national defense. For three decades, American grand strategy has rested on what Barry Posen termed “Command of the Commons”: an unrivaled...

The sudden outbreak of war in in Iran has snapped the world’s attention away from Eastern Europe toward the Persian Gulf and wider Middle East. Yet for Ukraine, the implications of this new conflict are anything but peripheral. The...

This piece is part of Behind the Front, an FPRI project on the future of US and allied national defense.  The idea that an Iranian Shahed drone could strike the US Navy’s nerve center in Bahrain during daylight hours,...

In an interview on Feb. 1, 2026 on the popular Czech television political commentary series “Questions with Vaclav Moravec,” Petr Macinka, the Czech foreign minister and head of the government’s junior coalition party Motorists for Themselves (Motoristé sobě), declared...

Each month, Dr. Indra Ekmanis writes a monthly roundup highlighting major political, cultural, and economic events in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Her commentary on the Baltic response to Russia’s war in Ukraine is featured below, originally featured in the...