FPRI brings the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests abroad. We add perspective to events by fitting them into longer-range patterns. And we develop alternative policies to deal with pressing U.S. international problems. Major research programs are listed below. 
The Foreign Policy Research Institute, founded in 1955, is a non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests. In the tradition of our founder, Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé, Philadelphia-based FPRI embraces history and geography to illuminate foreign policy challenges facing the United States. More about FPRI »
