In her new book from Cambridge University Press, Heather Sharkey explores the history of day-to-day relations between Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Middle East, a region once marked by great diversity that is today largely absent. In...

Existential enemies have a way of uniting a country. Could America’s current state of division be related to the absence of such an enemy? In this talk, FPRI Senior Fellow Dominic Tierney takes an unorthodox look at America and...

  Increased efforts by Beijing to limit, and reduce, Taiwan’s international space have made the question of Taiwan’s opportunities for participation in international organizations more urgent for Taiwan and more salient as an issue in international politics. Whether reflecting...

In cooperation with UPenn’s Center for East Asian Studies, the Foreign Policy Research Institute hosted a briefing on the situation in North Korea with Lt. General (Ret) In Bum Chun.  Chun served in the South Korean military for over...

The Kremlin has managed to deploy power so ruthlessly at home and abroad in part because of its surprising ability to muster economic resources. In this talk, Miller analyzes the secret to Putin’s success. Chris Miller is the Research Director...

    The election of Donald Trump is both cause and effect of a scrambled American political landscape. Trump’s campaign rhetoric promised a new departure from the allegedly failed policies of the Washington “swamp,” beyond conventional categories of liberal...

In the past, concerns raised by China’s bad debt bubbles have triggered no alarms, in large part, because of its massive foreign exchange reserves and rapidly growing economy. Now, China’s debts are higher than ever, while its reserves have...

  Confidence in the future of democracy has been shaken by the authoritarian resurgence of the past decade, and some now argue that it is not realistic for the US to continue to champion democracy abroad. Does Democracy Matter?...

  This June we commemorate the Six Day War, a transformative event in the history of the Middle East that ended in Israel’s conquest of an area three-and-a-half times the size of Israel itself. Its effects were felt then...