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| 15.05.2025 | South Africa: U.S. Anti-Terrorism Cases Against MTN Group Put Multinationals in Peril | In April 2025, legal scholars raised concerns about the ongoing Iran-related terrorism cases against the MTN Group in the US court system. Professor Jeffrey Breinholt of George Washington University even went so far as to express his belief... |
| 19.12.2024 | Securing Our Digital Lifelines: Quantum Technology and the Battle for Arctic Supremacy | Back to Publications
View of the U.S.-Canada fourth joint mission to map the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean in August and September 2011. Photo: U.S. Department of State
The battle for Arctic supremacy is heating up as melting ice an... |
| 02.12.2024 | Syria's embattled Assad seeks to shore up support after Aleppo loss | BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sought to shore up support from his allies on Sunday (Dec 1), after a monitor said a shock rebel offensive saw government forces lose control of Aleppo for the first time since the start of the count... |
| 30.11.2024 | What do we know about Syrian rebels' major offensive on Aleppo? | BEIRUT: Rebel forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad have launched their biggest offensive in years this week, controlling a majority of Syria's second city of Aleppo according to a monitor.
Government forces offered little resistance, t... |
| 30.07.2024 | Mapping Latvia's DefenceTech innovation space | Latvia’s military sector is in the spotlight as the country gears up to face growing security concerns through increased defence spending, reintroduced conscription, public awareness campaigns, significant investments in developing and proc... |
| 12.06.2024 | NATO has always been an Arctic Alliance (Part II) | Back to Publications
A Dutch Marine participates in amphibious landing training in March 2024 as part of NATO’s Nordic Response exercise. The exercise brought 20,000 soldiers from 13 NATO member states to the Norwegian Arctic. Photo: NATO N... |
| 27.05.2024 | Rising Discontent Pushes South Africa Toward a Tight Poll | On 29 May, South Africans will go to the polls to vote in national and provincial elections. The African National Congress (ANC), which has dominated politics for the last three decades and has become almost synonymous with the state, is pr... |
| 01.04.2024 | Aaron Stein Elected Next President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute | Dr. Aaron Stein
The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is pleased to announce the election of Dr. Aaron Stein as its President commencing on April 15, 2024.
PHILADELPHIA, April 1, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Foreign Policy Research... |
| 06.03.2024 | Russia's hardliners are furious over its latest loss at sea, saying commanders would rather cover up mistakes than learn | Military & Defense Russia's hardliners are furious over its latest loss at sea, saying commanders would rather cover up mistakes than learn
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| 24.12.2023 | Iranian navy receives new cruise missiles, drones, and recon helicopters as US accuses the country of striking a chemical tanker | Military & Defense Iranian navy receives new cruise missiles, drones, and recon helicopters as US accuses the country of striking a chemical tanker
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2023-12-24T16:09:12Z
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| 17.12.2023 | More big shipping companies suspend Red Sea operations as fears build over global supply chains amid increasing Houthi rebel attacks | Retail More big shipping companies suspend Red Sea operations as fears build over global supply chains amid increasing Houthi rebel attacks
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| 30.11.2023 | Russian troops are being blown up by their own minefields because their leaders won't say where they are, Ukraine says | A sign warning of mines near Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 28, 2023. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images
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Russian troops are refusing to attack Ukrainian positions near Kherson, Ukraine said.
The troops are hesitant after taking los... |
| 18.10.2023 | Phebe N. Novakovic to Receive FPRI's 17th Benjamin Franklin Award | The Future of Technology and National Security
The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is pleased to announce the seventeenth Benjamin Franklin Award recipient, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Dynamics Phebe N. Novakovi... |
| 04.10.2023 | Ukraine's unending demand for artillery shells to fight Russia is tapping out critical Western ammo stockpiles, which officials say are almost empty | Ukrainian soldiers load ammunition into a 2s9 artillery vehicle in Donetsk Oblast on April 14, 2023. Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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The artillery-intensive war in Ukraine is drying up Western ammunition sto... |
| 06.06.2023 | How a coup to force Putin from power could go down if he loses in Ukraine, according to former intel officers | Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting in Moscow on October 26, 2019. ALEXEI DRUZHININ/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images
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Rumors of a coup plot against Russia's Vladimir Putin are swirling.
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| 25.04.2023 | Central Asia: An Emerging Food And Energy Supplier For The World | (L to R) Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubaev, Tajikistan's Foreign Minister Sirojiddin ... [+] Muhriddin, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Turkmenistan's Foreign Minister Rashid Mer... |
| 26.03.2023 | Going to war? Good news! The United States is 13 years behind in ammunition production, NYT reports | Ukrainian troops fire a Javelin anti-tank missile during drills in Ukraine, February 2022. Ukrainian military/Handout via REUTERS
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| 07.03.2023 | The Potential Consequences for Africa of an FTO Designation of the Wagner Group | In January, the U.S. government designated the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, “a significant transnational criminal organization.” In doing so, the Biden administration has avoided succumbing to growing pressure to design... |
| 17.02.2023 | Afghanistan as a Site of U.S.-China Competition | The chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the Taliban’s swift takeover of the country thereafter ushered in a host of geopolitical challenges for South and Central Asia. The resulting power vacuum in Afghanistan could ... |
| 12.01.2023 | Intense fighting in eastern Ukraine showed the benefits — and limitations — of HIMARS, experts say | A HIMARS in Skede, Latvia during a military exercise in September 2022. GINTS IVUSKANS/AFP via Getty Images
US-provided HIMARS rocket artillery aided Ukraine's rapid advance around Kharkiv in September.
HIMARS destroyed Russian positions an... |
| 11.01.2023 | Adding Value To Africa's Soft Commodity Sector | Daniel Danino is the CEO and founder of Volta Metals, an international group focused on energy, industry and trading in EMEA. |
| 25.10.2022 | Sudan’s hidden resistance: ‘The day that can no longer wait’ | As a renowned Sudanese musician’s concert wound up close to midnight, the large crowds started leaving the old open theatre in Khartoum. They had been listening to the last songs on their feet under the night rain. There was a strange, cont... |
| 19.10.2022 | China’s Energy Vulnerabilities Drive Xi’s Policies | The long-anticipated 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, widely seen as Chinese President Xi Jinping's stage-managed coronation for a third term, began with Xi delivering a two-hour speech focusing on security, further globa... |
| 07.10.2022 | Missing The Target: Leadership Actions On Drones Put Lives At Risk And Undermine U.S. Security | MQ-1 Predator A Tail 3034, first to fire a Hellfire in combat.Photo by Eric Long, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. |
| 18.09.2022 | The Importance of Terrorist Founders and the Role of Safe Havens | Editor’s Note: Many terrorist groups are small, and their initial leaders exert outsized influence on their future direction. Drawing on their recent book, Tricia Bacon of American University and Elizabeth Grimm of Georgetown University exa... |
| 06.09.2022 | Smart Manufacturing: A Linchpin in China’s Industrial Policy | Industrial capacity is not synonymous with technological prowess. A country’s industrial base includes not just its cutting-edge technologies and actors, but also its foundational capabilities that make up the base of its economic prosperit... |
| 26.06.2022 | Russia’s 'Demonstration Army' Is a Red Flag for U.S. Security Force Assistance | Editor’s Note: Russia’s poor military performance in Ukraine came as a surprise to me and to many observers. Ben Connable of the Atlantic Council argues that one important factor explaining Russia’s failures was the lack of realistic milita... |
| 22.05.2022 | NATO Must Get Resilience Right to Withstand Russia and China | Editor’s Note: NATO faces many challenges in the years to come. Russia, of course, is at the top of the list of concerns, but the growing role of China will also shape NATO members’ thinking. Henrik Larsen of the Center for Security Studies... |
| 03.05.2022 | Poland And Bulgaria Gas Cutoff: ‘Closing Time’ For Gazprom’s Eurozone Cash Flows | The U.S. national flag and Poland's national flag fly as liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker Oak ... [+] Spirit, operated by Teekay Corp., sits docked with Poland's first import of U.S. LNG at the Gazoport terminal, operated by Polskie LNG S... |
| 01.05.2022 | Make America Make Again | |
| 13.03.2022 | Is Europe Prepared for a Proxy War With Russia? | Editor’s Note: Russian forces are bogged down in Ukraine yet show no sign of ending their invasion. The United States and many European countries are pouring military aid into Ukraine, hoping to stop the Russian conquest. This short-term st... |
| 03.03.2022 | Recent Developments in AI and National Security: What You Need to Know | What Is AI and Why Does It Matter for National Security?
Artificial intelligence (AI)—the ability for a machine to maximize its chance of achieving its goals by acting based on data collected from its environment—is emerging as the defining... |
| 01.03.2022 | The Modern History of Economic Sanctions | A review of Nicholas Mulder, “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War” (Yale University Press, 2022).
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Nicholas Mulder’s new book, “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War,” remakes d... |
| 15.02.2022 | Rob Lee Joins Foreign Policy Research Institute as Senior Fellow | Rob Lee At a time when the world is focused on understanding Russia’s intentions and its military capabilities, Rob Lee’s work as a senior fellow will further strengthen FPRI’s team of experts studying Russia and defense issues.
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| 27.01.2022 | Foreign Policy Research Institute Announces New China Center | "Understanding China is increasingly vital to U.S. national security and, through this new research center, FPRI will examine China’s decision-making and policies"
PHILADELPHIA (PRWEB) January 27, 2022
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| 13.01.2022 | China And Russia Make Critical Mineral Grabs in Africa While the U.S. Snoozes | Daniel, only 11 years old, carries a bag of cobalt on his back. He works in a mine ferrying sack of ... [+] cobalt to a depot. Cobalt is a vital mineral needed for the production of rechargeable batteries needed for phones, computers and el... |
| 09.01.2022 | January 6, the Afghanistan Withdrawal and the Future of U.S. Counterterrorism | Editor’s Note: Counterterrorism policy confronts new challenges as 2022 begins, and it must do so as a range of new threats and concerns dominate policy priorities. Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware, both colleagues at Georgetown as well as expe... |
| 28.10.2021 | A Brief History of Online Influence Operations | The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series resumed last week, revealing that the platform took action against an online campaign to set up a new right-wing “Patriot Party” after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Earlier this month news outlets ... |
| 26.10.2021 | China’s Space Mining Industry Is Prepping For Launch – But What About The US? | (Illustration by Adrian Mann/Future Publishing via Getty Images)Future Publishing via Getty Images |
| 31.08.2021 | Water Wars: A Time for Choosing? Not for Southeast Asia, Say VP and SECDEF | U.S. and Partners Conduct Indo-Pacific Exercises, U.S. Sends Administration Officials to Asia
Military Exercises
July and August saw a number of major U.S. military operations throughout the Indo-Pacific region. In July, on the fifth annive... |
| 30.08.2021 | China Sees Opportunity After America's Withdrawal from Afghanistan. But Can Beijing Do Any Better? | The speed of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has been a surprise; China’s reaction to the “U.S. humiliation” anything but.
As the Aug. 31 deadline for U.S. troops to leave the nation approaches, with thousands of Afghans and foreign n... |
| 17.08.2021 | As U.S. Retreats, China Looks To Back Taliban With Afghan Mining Investments | |
| 09.08.2021 | Fixing Supply Chain Snags A Top Priority In Several U.S. Sectors | Heavily impacted industries — including semiconductors, solar power and pharmaceuticals — seek ... [+] solutions to supply chain problems. getty |
| 30.07.2021 | A missile race is heating up all across Asia | Chinese DF-26 ballistic missiles in a parade for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing, September 3, 2015. Andy Wong/Pool via REUTERS
The apparent growth of China’s ICBM force has received international attention in re... |
| 26.07.2021 | General Motors Moves To Secure Its Own Critical Mineral Supply Chains | Lithium brine operation in the Mojave Desert, CA.energi media |
| 20.07.2021 | Foreign Policy Research Institute Announces The Global Demons Podcast | Robert D. Kaplan
PHILADELPHIA (PRWEB) July 20, 2021
The Foreign Policy Research Institute is pleased to announce the upcoming release of The Global Demons Podcast. Hosted by best-selling author Robert D. Kaplan, this 13-episode bi-weekly po... |
| 11.04.2021 | Al-Qaeda After Ayman al-Zawahiri | Editor’s Note: The status of al-Qaeda, once the top terrorism threat to the United States, is in doubt, with many analysts questioning the group’s strength. The possible death of its leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has made these questions even ... |
| 15.03.2021 | Heavy Lies the Crown: The Survival of Arab Monarchies, 10 Years After the Arab Spring | Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
Ten years ago, the Arab uprisings unseated four “presidents for life” in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Yemen. The Middle East and North Africa’s (MENA) eight monarchs were sp... |
| 05.01.2021 | Foreign Policy Research Institute Announces New Members of its Board of Trustees | PHILADELPHIA (PRWEB) January 05, 2021
The Foreign Policy Research Institute is very pleased to announce the election in 2020 of six new members to its Board of Trustees.
Each new Trustee brings decades of expertise and leadership in the for... |
| 10.11.2020 | Explainer: Why U.S. Natural Gas Prices Have Increased During The Pandemic | Aerial view tanker ship, oil and gas chemical tanker in open seagetty |
| 01.11.2020 | The Terrorist Threat from the Fractured Far Right | Editor’s Note: The year 2020 has produced many shocks, including numerous threats of political violence. Bruce Hoffman, my Georgetown colleague who is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Jacob Ware of CFR arg... |
| 27.07.2020 | Rethinking Domestic Terrorism Law After Boogaloo Movement Attacks | On May 29, two contracted Federal Protective Service officers were shot outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, California. Several days later, the alleged perpetrator, Steven Carrillo reportedly shot ... |
| 27.07.2020 | Vietnam Threatens China with Litigation over the South China Sea | Vietnam and China have sparred over competing claims in the South China Sea for nearly 50 years. But for the first time, in November 2019, Vietnamese officials publicly issued threats to initiate international legal proceedings against Chin... |
| 18.06.2020 | Project Force: What is behind China’s naval ambitions? | The Chinese navy, or the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy), now has two fully-functioning aircraft carriers, the Soviet-era Liaoning and the new, domestically-built Shandong.
While seriously enhancing China’s ability to project comba... |
| 06.06.2020 | New U.S. Sanctions For Nord Stream 2? What’s At Stake. | Sanctions Over RussiaGetty |
| 15.05.2020 | How Has Russia Responded to COVID-19? | Russia’s early response to the coronavirus pandemic was met with praise by some—and confusion by most.
For months, the country reported strikingly low rates of infection, but now the pandemic appears to have arrived in full force.
Compared ... |
| 20.04.2020 | The Geopolitical Streisand Effect: The More China And The WHO Try To Silence Taiwan, The More Attention Its Success Fighting COVID-19 Gets | Last week, a full page advertisement appeared in the NY Times, that was crowdfunded by nearly 27,000 people (mostly from Taiwan), with the provocative line: “WHO can help? Taiwan.” Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen posted a picture to her Fac... |
| 20.04.2020 | The Geopolitical Streisand Effect: The More China And The WHO Try To Silence Taiwan, The More Attention Its Success Fighting COVID-19 Gets | Last week, a full page advertisement appeared in the NY Times, that was crowdfunded by nearly 27,000 people (mostly from Taiwan), with the provocative line: "WHO can help? Taiwan." Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen posted a picture ... |
| 14.10.2019 | NATO Allies Need to Come to Terms With Offensive Cyber Operations | In May 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense and the German Ministry of Defence signed a memorandum of understanding concerning “Cooperation on Information Assurance and Computer Network Defense.” Computer network defense (CND) refers to act... |
| 19.02.2019 | What Is Agreed Competition in Cyberspace? | The cyber-strategic environment comprises two strategic spaces—armed conflict and the competitive space short of armed conflict. Pursuing national objectives requires strategies that can succeed in the structural and dynamic realities of ea... |
| 06.01.2019 | Drawing the Line on U.S. Reassurance to Eastern Europe | Editor’s Note: The United States is considering deploying permanent forces to Poland to signal the U.S. security commitment to that country. Such a move would be a massive strategic shift and one that raises many questions. Sara Bjerg Molle... |
| 21.11.2018 | The Lawfare Podcast: What to Expect from the New Iraqi Government | Earlier this year, just as the United States was preparing to kick off its national elections, the country of Iraq was finalizing the results of its own and finally installing a new government after months of debate. It was the fourth parli... |
| 09.11.2018 | Persistent Engagement and Tacit Bargaining: A Path Toward Constructing Norms in Cyberspace | The unique structural and operational characteristics of cyberspace, we wrote in May 2017, must drive U.S. strategy if we are to see cyberspace become more secure and stable. In the 18 months since, significant changes in U.S strategic guid... |
| 03.05.2018 | What Is Absent From the U.S. Cyber Command 'Vision' | United States Cyber Command recently released a new “command vision” entitled “Achieve and Maintain Cyberspace Superiority.” The document seeks to provide: “a roadmap for USCYBERCOM to achieve and maintain superiority in cyberspace as we di... |
| 23.07.2017 | Drones Are the New Face of U.S. Foreign Policy. What Good Are They? | Editor’s Note: Drone strikes are among the most important, and among the most contentious, U.S. counterterrorism instruments. Data limits and the complexity of both cause and effect when it comes to terrorism make many judgments on efficacy... |
| 16.07.2017 | Understanding the Iran Nuclear Deal through the Lens of the Iran-Iraq War | Editor’s Note: The Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran remains one of its most important, and most contentious, foreign-policy legacies. Much of the controversy in the United States stems from the question of whether Iran might ch... |
| 18.06.2017 | Why the United States Needs Foreign Law Enforcement to Succeed Against the Islamic State | Editor’s Note: American leaders have long recognized that police and other law-enforcement officials are on counterterrorism's front lines and that foreign governments play a vital role in disrupting terrorist organizations. Unfortunately, ... |
| 03.04.2017 | Watch an ex-FBI agent explain how Russian trolls influenced the U.S. election | When people talk about Russian meddling in the U.S. election, they usually mean the hacking of DNC emails or covert communication with members of Donald Trump’s administration. But for former FBI special agent and national security expert C... |
| 03.02.2016 | Jihadology Podcast: al-Qaeda's Franchising Strategy | Barak Mendelsohn comes on the show to discuss his new book, The al-Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences. Some of the topics covered include:
How organizations expand
Why AQ decided to branch out and the strategy b... |
| 02.12.2014 | Kenyan President Vows War After Militant Group Al-Shabaab Massacres 36 Quarry Workers | Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared that his country is at war with the Islamist terror group al-Shabaab, after the bodies of 36 Christian and non-Muslim workers were discovered at a quarry near the Somali border on Tuesday.
Somali... |
| 29.09.2014 | Readings: Marc Sageman on Stagnation in Terrorism Research | Marc Sageman probably needs no introduction to most Lawfare readers. Author of two of the past decade's most influential books on the conceptualization of transnational terrorists and terrorist groups, Understanding Terrorist Networks (2004... |
| 23.02.2012 | Duke Law Conference on Afghanistan | The Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke Law School will hold its annual conference on Friday, April 13th and Saturday, April 14th. The Center's executive director, Air Force Maj. General Charles Dunlap, writes:
This year’s t... |
| - | Intensifying fighting in Ukraine raises the risk of a close encounter between US and Russian forces | A US Air force F-35A during refueling over Eastern Europe, February 28, 2022. US Air Force/Airman 1st Class Edgar Grimaldo
In the days since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US military has stepped up its activity around Eastern Europe.
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| - | India’s ties with Russia remain steady. But Moscow’s tighter embrace of China makes it wary | India’s relationship with Russia remains steadfast as both sides seek to deepen their economic engagements.
But Moscow has also grown close to Beijing since invading Ukraine, and that raises critical national security concerns for New Delhi... |
| - | Taiwan stunned after deadly shooting at Taiwanese-American church | Taipei, Taiwan – A fatal shooting at a Taiwanese-American church in southern California, which authorities said was motivated by the gunman’s hatred for Taiwan, has left residents of the self-governed island stunned.
Identified as David Cho... |
| - | The US 'annihilated' Russian mercenaries in Syria 4 years ago. But in Ukraine, the stakes are much higher. | Smoke rises amid damaged buildings after a Russian attack on the Yavoriv military base in western Ukraine on March 13, 2022. @BackAndAlive/via REUTERS
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| - | Why there's not much the US can do in response to reports of Russian bounties on US troops in Afghanistan | President Donald Trump speaks to US troops at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, November 28, 2019. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
The Trump administration is facing increasing pressure to respond to reports that Russia paid bounties to Afghan militants ... |
