Throughout Latin America, China is engaging in a unique form of political warfare—employing, per FPRI’s definition, “elements ...

In the first 96 hours, the US-led coalition expended approximately 5,197 munitions across 35 types (see Figure 1). This carries a munitions-only replacement ...

If Russia were ever to bring war to the Baltic, certainly the Baltic States themselves would not permit war to remain confined to their lands alone. Such has ...

FPRI had an exceptional year. We published cutting-edge research on the challenges Russia and China pose to American interests in the Indo-Pacific region, ...

Israel’s recent recognition of Somaliland’s status as an independent state represents a major inflection point in the Somaliland struggle for independence. In ...

Field research ― the collection of information outside a lab or workplace setting ― requires skills and knowledge not typically taught in the classroom. Fieldwork demands exploratory inquisitiveness, ...

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be ...

Chris Seiple was a Senior Fellow with FPRI’s Program on National Security. He is President Emeritus of the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE). The Foreign Policy Research Institute is dedicated to ...

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 ...

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: ...

“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 ...