A nation must think before it acts.
E-Notes
E-Notes are policy-oriented articles covering current developments around the globe that impinge upon American foreign policy and national security priorities.
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 ...
Read more »Introduction
An often-used—really overused—cliché in books, movies, and TV shows is a plot that asks the question, “What do you get ...
Read more »
Menachem Begin and His Lasting Contribution to Israeli Foreign Policy and National Security
Many aspects of Israel’s national security situation today, which is almost the best it has ever been, began taking shape ...
Read more »