Publications

Over the past few weeks, Israel has been facing quite a bit of political drama—complete with screaming matches and the physical removal of parliamentarians from the Knesset plenum. This has been all in response to a ban placed on...

At the beginning of 2015, a united Europe prided itself on the continental freedom of travel citizens of the Schengen Area enjoyed. By year’s end, terrorist attacks and asylum seekers had fractured the borderless treaty into chaos. Like toppling...

These are difficult times in the United States and Europe, the primary interest of FPRI’s Center for the Study of ericaerica and the West. The combination of economic malaise, demographic gloom, and geopolitical chaos have encouraged an increasingly depressing,...

Arthur Brooks, The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America (New York: Broadside Books, 2015). Hardback, 246 pp. $27.99. Donald Trump’s popularity in the primary marathon has upended several campaign truisms. Whereas media-enforced rules...

This month’s American Review opens the conversation on the future of the West. Editor Ron Granieri contemplates the challenges and opportunities ahead, while guest contributor Mark Brennan reviews the latest book from AEI President Arthur Brooks.    ...

Prince Khaled bin Sultan Al Saud, the co-commander of coalition forces during the 1990-1991 Gulf War, argues in his 1995 biography Desert Warrior that Israel took its “bomb out of the basement” during the war to convince the U.S....

The ill-advised declaration on February 6 by Infrastructure and Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz that Egypt had flooded some of Hamas’s Gazan smuggling tunnels at Israel’s request brought attention to an important development: Israeli-Egyptian relations have over the last two years reached an unprecedented...

Revisionist powers are on the move. ‎From eastern Ukraine and the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea, large rivals of the United States are modernizing their military forces, grabbing strategic real estate, and threatening vulnerable U.S. allies. Their...

“Two things greater than all things are,” wrote Rudyard Kipling: “The first is Love and the second War.” Romance and conflict have always been intimately bound together. Love can provoke war, at least judging by accounts of the Trojan...

Moroccans view with great enthusiasm the imminent, historic visit by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Rabat. Our countries, which are bound by a common Islamic heritage, share aspirations and vital interests at this sensitive and pivotal moment, and it...