Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Research Programs

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Research Programs

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.

Asia Program

FPRI’s Asia Program promotes debate and analysis of important developments in Asia, with an emphasis on East Asia, including China and Taiwan.

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Eurasia Program

FPRI’s Eurasia Program analyzes political, security, and economic trends in Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe

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Middle East Program

The Middle East Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute is dedicated to providing non-partisan and policy-relevant analysis about this region.

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Program on National Security

The FPRI’s Program on National Security seeks to help illuminate and address these issues and trends by examining contemporary and emergent concerns for American and international security

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Center for the Study of America and the West

The Center brings together historians, political scientists, and other scholars who explore and illuminate the key dimensions of American identity and Western Civilization.

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Foreign Influence Election 2020

As Russia, Iran and China habitually use state media apparatuses to publish propaganda, this project seeks to understand the general thrust of such efforts and assess the magnitude of any overt or subtle election influence efforts they contain.

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Other FPRI Initiatives

View our current selection of FPRI initiatives including the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Think Tanks and Foreign Policy Program

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