A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Commentary
A nation must think before it acts.
Commentary
Defeating Disinformation Threats
Russia, to a smaller or larger extent, has deliberately challenged the Baltic states on both domestic and international levels since the breakup of the Soviet Union. After Russia began an unannounced war against Ukraine and occupied and annexed Crimea...
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Russia’s Political Influence in Bulgaria
Speaking on July 11, 2019, at an international conference in Batumi, Georgia, European Council President Donald Tusk declared, “The collapse of the Soviet Union was a blessing . . . to the whole of Central and Eastern Europe.” Bulgaria,...
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Can Oman Survive Its Own Neighborhood After the Death of Sultan Qaboos?
The small Gulf state of Oman’s identity is closely—if not inextricably—linked with the person of Sultan Qaboos, who passed away on January 10 after nearly 50 years in power. He singlehandedly transformed the country from a sleepy, closed-off country...
Read more »Why Geopolitics Matters
Geopolitics has been one of the great strengths of the Foreign Policy Research Institute from the outset, and this strength ...
Read more »Donald Trump, History, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute
For the majority of young Americans under the age of 30, the impeachment and trial of Bill Clinton, which took ...
Read more »An Ode to Alan Luxenberg
Alan Lux is a man about town Not in a tux mind you, but with shirt out and head down ...
Read more »Looking Back to Lean Forward: The Study of History to Inform the Present and Shape the Future
Alan Luxenberg and I first worked together at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in the summer of 1976. He and ...
Read more »An Appreciation of Alan Luxenberg
The formidable Harvey Sicherman, who served as chief of the Foreign Policy Research Institute longer even than its storied founder ...
Read more »Alan Luxenberg
I first met Alan Luxenberg in June 1991 at a restaurant on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. It ...
Read more »Then and Now: 1976 and 2020
The world has turned over many times since Alan Luxenberg first entered the Foreign Policy Research Institute and began his ...
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