Commentary

On December 17, 2001, the Foreign Policy Research Institute held a day-long conference to address the question of sovereignty in PRC-Taiwan relations and the economic, political, legal, and international relations issues affecting the prospects for addressing or resolving it....

Even though embroiled in a global war against terrorism, the United States continues to view and conceptualize the world along Cold War lines. This is particularly the case in the realm of military organization. Today, the Department of Defense...

Why Geography Matters Walter McDougall, Chairman of FPRI’s History Institute and professor of international relations at the University of Pennsylvania, opened the conference by recalling his own sadness upon realizing his students’ ignorance of geography. Students are often unable to...

Israel’s strategy formulation for its military reaction to the Al Aksa intifada begun by the Palestinians in Fall 2000 was profoundly affected by the Israeli Defense Forces’ experience in occupying parts of Lebanon from 1982 to 2000. Even before...

The American war against terrorists and the states harboring them achieved a notable victory in Afghanistan. A politically isolated Taliban-al Qaeda regime was overthrown by an American-led coalition (notably Pakistan and Russia) that used primarily American and local forces....

With famine now threatening the country, Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe has declared a state of disaster. Considering that Mugabe is the main reason for the disaster, there is a tragic irony in his implicit admission of the calamity...

Robert Strausz-Hupé, founder of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and first editor of Orbis, passed away on February 24, 2002 at the age of 98. He completed this document— his last— in December 2001; it is the introduction to...

The events of September 11, 2001 have placed the subject of terrorism and the war against it, front and center in the lives of Americans and in the classrooms of America. There are many important issues and concepts which...

The 9/11 attacks reawakened the U.S. to the fact that the world is a hazardous place deserving renewed vigilance and a proactive foreign policy. State or non-state, future enemies will be empowered by the same global trends that give...

The end of the Cold War did not mean the end of Marxism or of the methods it used for a century to achieve and hold on to power. It must also be added that Marxism remains an enemy...