Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Transcripts and Testimonies

Testimony before the Arizona legislature on HB 2436 and HB 2506

British Containment Foiled Again: John Quincy Adams’ American System

Editor’s Note: On June 21, FPRI’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall discussed John Quincy Adams and Anglo-American diplomacy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the sixth annual Ginsburg-Satell Lecture on American Character and Identity. The lecture was made...

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Religion and Resistance: The Ukrainian Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches in Resistance Efforts in the War Against Russia

Editor’s Note: This article is based on the 26th Annual Templeton Lecture on Religion & World Affairs, given by Dr. Heather S. Gregg on November 01, 2022.    ...

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The Uses and Abuses of the UN’s ‘China Resolution’

Editor’s Note: The People’s Republic of China asserts that UN General Assembly Resolution 2758—which gave Beijing the “Chinese seat” at the United Nations—adopts the country’s “One China Principle” and that member states thereby accepted that Taiwan is a part...

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Speaker Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip: What It Meant and What Comes Next?

Editor’s Note: On August 12, director of FPRI’s Asia Program Jacques deLisle, FPRI senior fellow Shelley Rigger, and Jude Blanchette discussed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taiwan.   ...

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The First Annual Samuel J. Savitz Memorial Lecture on Cultural Diplomacy

Editor’s Note: On April 21, the first annual Samuel J. Savitz Memorial Lecture on Cultural Diplomacy was held to honor the memory of Samuel J. Savitz, a longtime FPRI Fellow and Vice Chairman of the FPRI’s Board of Trustees....

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Russia’s Long Shadow and the Future of Europe

The following is a transcript of FPRI’s event with Nikolas Gvosdev, Valbona Zeneli, and Andreas Umland, held on February 24, 2022.  Nick Gvosdev: Articles that appear in the current issue of Orbis, which we started to plan last year,...

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Weimar Forever: How the World of Today Resembles the Weimar Republic

The following is a transcript of an event held on January 4, 2022. Rollie Flynn: Good morning, and welcome to our event this morning, featuring Robert D. Kaplan, who is the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at FPRI. He’s...

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Exclusive Interview: Russian Dissident and Former Duma Member Ilya Ponomarev

The following is a transcript of FPRI’s event with Russian dissident and former Duma member Ilya Ponomarev on January 28, 2022. Carol “Rollie” Flynn: Good afternoon and thank you for coming today. I’m Rollie Flynn the president of the...

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Hearing on US-China Relations at the Chinese Communist Party’s Centennial