It can be argued that the rise of Donald Trump has created more uncertainty about America’s role in the world than at any time in recent decades. At the same time, the geopolitical challenges to the US have grown...

In his new book, Stewart Patrick says that sovereignty is “one of the most frequently invoked, polemical, and misunderstood concepts in politics.” Some see sovereignty as requiring the avoidance of international attachments while others see preservation of sovereignty in...

The illegal trade of everyday counterfeit products — a $400 billion a year industry — is a big chunk of what’s actually funding terrorist groups around the world, argues FPRI’s Vanessa Neumann in her new book Blood Profits.  In this...

By some measures, Eurasia’s energy landscape has changed more in the past several years than in the previous several decades. The price of oil remains at half its level of four years ago, and shows no sign of increasing....

Arguably the most closed society on earth, North Korea has developed a nuclear weapons program and now appears to be attempting the development of intercontinental missiles that could threaten the U.S. In this discussion we explore North Korean realities...

  Heralded as the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin and the world he lived in, the first volume of Prof. Kotkin’s trilogy recast the way we think about Stalin and the Soviet Union. In this talk on the occasion...

President Donald Trump recently completed a 12-day trip to Asia, with stops in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines, and including attendance at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting.  The announced agenda included building cooperation to pressure...

Assaf Moghadam, Director of Academic Affairs, Institute on Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya  Interviewed by Barak Mendelsohn, Senior Fellow, FPRI; Associate Professor of Political Science, Haverford College  Drawing on recently declassified, this discussion will explore how terrorists cooperate and how these...

At a crucial moment in European history, France went to the polls and elected the young centrist Emmanuel Macron. How will he deal with opposition from his right and left, with Trump’s America, and with the internal and external...

  Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state repression. Egypt remains an authoritarian state; Syria and Yemen...