U.S. Troops in Syria: A Quick Assessment Of The U.S. Strategy To Combat The Islamic State – One Year On
Last week, the White House announced the deployment of a few dozen Special Forces soldiers to Syria. After more...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Geopoliticus
A nation must think before it acts.
How Can America Respond to a Double Standard in War?
When the Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, came under fire by an AC-130 gunship at the beginning...
The Big Chill: Domestic Insecurities and Sino-Japanese Relations
China and Japan sparred once again, this time at the United Nations. Last week, China’s ambassador for disarmament affairs...
Russia returns as al Qaeda and the Islamic State’s ‘Far Enemy’
The Soviet defeat and subsequent withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 left victorious Arab mujahideen adrift. Many retired from their...
Is Turkey’s Military Reentering Politics?
Hulusi Akar, the recently selected chief of Turkey’s military, confronts a very tense, if not perilous environment. His August appointment...
Putin’s Hidden Victims
It has been nearly three years since Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning American families from adopting...
U.S. Foreign Policy Aspirations and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Economic Integration and Political Alignment?
At times, it seemed as though the negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would go on interminably. Begun in...
Azerbaijan Closes Its Doors: This Time To Amnesty International
FPRI scholars and contributors have frequently used the case of Azerbaijan to support the argument that in today’s world...
The Eurasian Economic Union’s growth is not good for democracy in the region
In August 2015, Kyrgyzstan officially became a full member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), joining Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan...
The Almost-Normal Country: Japan and the Use of Force
The enactment of Japan’s new national security bills was a long time in the making. The bills, already passed...