E-Notes

On May 27-30, 2016, the American Association of Baltic Studies held its 25th biennial meeting at the University of Pennsylvania.  FPRI was pleased to be a sponsor of the meeting, host of a roundtable discussion, and co-host of the...

Word is out that Washington's traditional Arab allies, alarmed at rising terror threats, have been trying to counter jihadist groups on their own. In addition to aggressive military action, homegrown Arab "soft power" efforts have emerged — from media...

In early June, dignitaries from over fifty countries gathered for the 15th iteration of the Shangri La meeting, organized by the prestigious London-based Institute for International Strategic Studies. Named for the hotel that serves as its venue rather...

There comes a time when frustration can turn into disgust, and I’m closer to the transformation after seeing yesterday morning’s Washington Post, in which a front-page article authored by William Wan and Anne Hull refers to Orlando shooter Omar...

The movement commonly known as Boko Haram has undergone a dramatic evolution since its humble beginnings in the northeastern corner of Nigeria. Initially consisting of a group of followers united by the radical preaching of Muhammad Yusuf, today Boko...

Międzymorze is an interwar geopolitical vision conceptualized by the Polish leader Józef Piłsudski (and later adopted by Wladyslaw Sikorski). It is commonly rendered into Latin as Intermarium or "between the seas." The "seas" in Piłsudski's formulation are the endpoints...

  April 2016 marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, who is not only the poet of the English speaking people but also their political teacher, as Homer was the political teacher of the Greeks and...

On April 11, 2016, the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Transatlantic Academy of the German Marshall Fund collaborated with the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House, the Penn-Temple European Studies Colloquium, and the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia...

    “A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border.”Statement on www.donaldjtrump.com  “These drug cartels are showing more and more indices of insurgencies.”Secretary Hillary R. Clinton (September 2010) “In comparison...

Just days before Israelis headed to the polls in March of 2015, the ultra-Orthodox Yachad party held an event for women in the ultra-Orthodox community to garner their support. Not only did the Yachad party have no women on...