The Trump administration is pushing both Ukraine and Russia to reach agreement on a ceasefire and to kick-off formal talks on ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Berzina is a senior researcher at the Center for Security and Strategic Studies at the National Academy of Defense of ...

Welcome back to the Ties that Bind. This week, we go back North to the shores of the Baltic Sea for a perspective from Latvia ...

In 2021, open-source intelligence efforts revealed a surprising discovery using commercial satellite imagery: China was building at least two silo fields for ...

Join us for a reception and conversation with Ambassador Vladislav Kulminski, and FPRI President Aaron Stein as they discuss Moldova’s recent elections, ...

Tanzania has long been a model of representative government and stability in East Africa. Recent elections have sparked public discontent, demonstrations, and violent reactions from government ...

On October 20, 2025, a glitch at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in northern Virginia triggered more than 6.5 million website outages, disrupting banking, logistics, and government operations ...

Since the 2011 uprising and subsequent civil war, Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities have borne heavy costs amid threats from multiple warring actors. The fate of these communities has come under ...