Current analysis of the recent offensive conducted by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region of Russia is incomplete at best ...

Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where his work focuses on U.S.-China relations, US-Taiwan relations, ...

In strategic studies and international relations, grand strategy is a frequently-invoked concept. Yet, despite its popularity, it is not well understood and it has many definitions, some of which are ...

Over the last decade, the U.S., UK Israel and other states have begun to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military operations and for targeted killings in places like Pakistan, Yemen and ...

H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author — and a famous American agnostic in the twentieth century. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and ...

In the Fall 2024 issue of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s journal Orbis, we feature several articles that offer ...

Join us for a reception and conversation with the Ambassador of Romania to the United States, Andrei Muraru, and FPRI President Aaron Stein as they discuss Romanian foreign policy and the strategic ...

The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once, war was a temporary state of affairs—a violent but brief interlude between times of ...

From the “Great Arab Revolt” against Ottoman rule in World War I to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, this text analyzes a century of modern Arab history through the lens of three intertwined notions: ...

Prior to joining AFPC, Michael served as a Legislative Assistant in the United States Senate from 2014 to 2019. While in the ...

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry ...