Islamists and Autocrats: What the Next Administration Needs to Know about Egypt
Usually we think of Egypt's political future as a contest between secular autocrats, on the one hand, and Islamists,...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Islamists and Autocrats: What the Next Administration Needs to Know about Egypt
A nation must think before it acts.
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Foresight into 21st Century Conflict: End of the Greatest Illusion?
The number of conflicts is again on the rise as both states and violent actors contend for influence and...
Great War at Sea: Remembering the Battle of Jutland
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the largest sea fight of the First World War, a clash between...
The Best of FPRI’s Essays on Asia, 2005-2015
In the sixty years since the founding of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, no region of the world has...
The Best of FPRI’s Essays on National Security, 2005-2015
Matters of national security have concerned the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) ever since its founding in 1955. They...
Parliament without Politics: The Effort to Consolidate Authoritarian Rule
Introduction General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Egypt’s ruler since July 2013, brooks no dissent. Having “saved” Egypt from the Muslim Brothers,...
Where the Lions Are — Gazprom’s “Energetic Pliers” and Aspirations of a Eurasian Archipelago: The Geopolitics of Russia’s Networked Energy Infrastructure
“I sit on a man’s back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others...
The Best of FPRI’s Essays on America and the West, 1993-2015
From its founding in 1955, the Foreign Policy Research Institute has always been deeply interested in the relationship between...
A Quick Guide to the Foreign Policy Views of the Republican Presidential Candidates
At a Glance As of this writing, sixteen candidates are formally running for the nomination of the Republican Party...
The Best of FPRI’s Essays on Democratic Transitions
We launched the Project on Democratic Transitions a decade ago in reaction to the fifteen years of dramatic change...