U.S. Foreign Policy

On Thursday, November 3, 2016, FPRI co-sponsored a conference, New Dawn: Russia and the West after the U.S. Presidential Elections, with the Atlantic Council, which hosted the conference in Washington, D.C. Other sponsors included the University of Pennsylvania, Johns...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quick to warn President-elect Donald Trump that the United States is "duty-bound . . . to abide by the country's commitments" to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). That document...

The National Interest Hillary Clinton made three fundamental mistakes. She assumed she could tack to the Left and still win moderates. She assumed that the minority vote would carry her to victory. And she assumed that voters would ignore...

On November 13, 2016, Igor Dodon and Maia Sandu will face off in a run off election for the presidency of Moldova. The winner will determine whether the country moves closer to Russia or the European Union....

bne Intellinews As widely expected in the past couple of months, Mikheil Saakashvili, former Georgian president turned Ukrainian district governor of Odessa, has resigned from his post. In a press conference on November 8, Saakashvili lashed out against his...

War on the Rocks In spring 2014, a funny story crossed our social media feeds. A petition on whitehouse.gov called for “sending Alaska back to Russia,” and it quickly amassed tens of thousands of signatures. The media ran a...

Germany is now back in the Baltic Sea—in a big way. After the Cold War, Germany took a relatively reserved approach to its neighbors on the Baltic shores. Germany supported the Baltic states in their bid to join the...

Lawfare America’s allies have come under intense scrutiny this election season. The Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, postulated at times that he might, if president, break long-standing alliances with NATO. His premise: America’s allies aren’t paying their share of...

The upcoming presidential elections in Moldova will determine whether the country further integrates with the European Union or develops a closer relationship with Russia....

In the early 1950s, the British government adopted a new approach to conducting covert operations behind the Iron Curtain. Dubbed "pinpricks" by the head of MI6, Stewart Menzies, it employed overt propaganda and limited covert action to chip away...