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Epic Misadventure or Historic Achievement: The Remarkable Story of the Czecho-Slovak Legion
This essay draws on the author’s new book Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe (Public Affairs, 2016). An educated person...
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The Baltic States in European Security: A Report of an FPRI Roundtable at the 25th Biennial Meeting of the American Association of Baltic Studies
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...
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Four Geopolitical Consequences of Brexit
The shock waves from the Brexit referendum are still being absorbed in Britain, Europe and around the world. But the landmarks of global security have already been reshaped. Here are four consequences of Brexit: 1. Brexit completely transformed the...
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How Russia Could Help Curb North Korea’s Nukes
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — Russia is a key strategic player in Northeast Asia, borders on North Korea, has long experience in dealing with various Pyongyang regimes and provides goods and services vital to the North’s survival and well-being. The country...
Read more »How NATO’s Fear of Trump Benefits America
In addition to the threats of a resurgent Russia to the east, and extremism and migrant flows from across the Mediterranean to the south, another specter looms over the upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw—Donald Trump’s shadow. For the first...
Read more »A Revitalized U.S.-Russian Relationship
Washington seems newly determined to contain China in Asia, but its recent policies — displays of military might in the South China Sea and overtures to Hanoi — clearly underscore its tougher stance. A more subtle and possibly more...
Read more »Blunting Moscow’s Sword of Damocles Policy in the Baltic Region
The Roman philosopher Cicero recounted how King Dionysius answered a courtier, Damocles, who thought that ruling a realm was merely pleasure and leisure. In response, King Dionysius offered Damocles to switch places. However, King Dionysius ordered that a...
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By Love, Money, or Violence: The Struggle for Primacy in the Black Sea
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...
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With Putin’s ASEAN Outreach, Russia Sets Sights on Southeast Asia
The third ASEAN-Russia summit, held in the Russian city of Sochi, concluded on May 20. In a beehive of diplomatic activity, Russian President Vladimir Putin held bilateral meetings with the leader of every member-state of the Association of Southeast...
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COLCHIS: Georgia and the geopolitics of resilience
Arguably, the most straightforward entree into the world of Georgian geopolitics is the West-Russia tension at the heart of its foreign policy dilemma. Georgia is a former Soviet republic with longstanding cultural, economic and political ties to Russia in...
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