Years before Russia started its full-scale war against Ukraine, the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, ...

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When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the international community quickly came together ...

In strategic studies and international relations, grand strategy is a frequently-invoked concept. Yet, despite its popularity, it is not well understood and it has many definitions, some of which are ...

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 ...

The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once, war was a temporary state of affairs—a violent but brief interlude between times of ...

In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial Russia and ...

Russian information operations in Africa are a tool to expand Russia’s presence on the continent and to turn African countries into allies of Russia in its ...

“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 ...

Although “democracy promotion” has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition. While some countries quickly democratize, others lag ...

On November 13, 2024, the Foreign Policy Research Institute will present Jared Isaacman with the 18th Annual Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service.

Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Sean L. Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that made the political regimes of the ...