Saturday, June 25, 2016

The Geopolitics of Brexit

 

FPRI's Ronald J. Granieri joined Michael Noonan and FPRI Radio to discuss Thursday's Brexit. What does this mean for the UK and the EU? What are the possibilities for the future? Listen here to find out.

New Publications

The American Review - Issue 6
Ronald J. Granieri, Editor
June 2016

• Letter from the Editor, Ronald J. Granieri
• What Jason Frank and Isaac Kramnick Forget About Hamilton, Stephen F. Knott
• Special Relationships: The EU, Brexit, and the Atlantic Community, Ronald J. Granieri
• Geopolitics Redux, Jeremy Black

How Russia Could Help Curb North Korea’s Nukes
Rens Lee, Senior Fellow, FPRI
Artyom Lukin, Professor, Far Eastern Federal University
WorldPost on Huffington Post, June 23, 2016

"Russia is a key strategic player in Northeast Asia, borders on North Korea, has long experience in dealing with various Pyongyang regimes and provides goods and services vital to the North’s survival and well-being. The country could contribute significantly to international deliberations on how to restrain the North’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs."

After Orlando: What is different about the current Islamic State-inspired attacks?
Clint Watts, Robert A. Fox Fellow, FPRI
Geopoliticus: The FPRI Blog, June 24, 2016

"The most curious outcome of the Islamic State’s Paris attacks leading up to the more recent Orlando assault has been a rash of inspired attacks – attacks committed by lone individuals or small groups with no demonstrable connection to jihadi terror groups and motivated simply by propaganda calls for violence"

Why Does the United States Oppose Brexit? I Can't Say
David J. Betz, Senior Fellow, FPRI
War on the Rocks, June 22, 2016

"The situation is, to put it mildly, confused and extremely strained. No major country has left the European Union before so no one really understands how a vote to leave — a “Brexit” — would in practice play out." 

Fundamental Mistakes
Darryl G. Hart, Associate Scholar, FPRI
The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 19, 2016

Once upon a time, social scientists who study religion and politics in the United States thought they understood voters who have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ — read: evangelical Protestants. Then came Donald Trump.

FPRI Bookshelf

Welcome to the FPRI Bookshelf! In this section of our weekly insights, we highlight recent and upcoming books by our scholars.
 

Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun
June Teufel Dreyer, Senior Fellow, FPRI

Listen to Dreyer's recent talk on her new book with FPRI.

 

Dreams of A Great Small Nation
Kevin McNamara, Senior Fellow, FPRI
PublicAffairs, March 2016

Deadly Impasse: Indo-Pakistani Relations at the Dawn of a New Century
Sumit Ganguly, Senior Fellow, FPRI
Cambridge University Press, March 29, 2016

Audio/Video of Past Events

National Defense Forum

National Defense Forum: The ISIS Threat
A lecture co-sponsored by the First Division Museum at Cantigny, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and the Union League Club of Chicago.
 

In an effort to increase civic literacy in the run-up to the 2016 Presidential election this series will offer a talks about issues related to U.S. foreign and defense policy. This event discusses ISIS, al-Qaeda, and international terrorism. How big of a threat are these groups to U.S. national security in the present and the medium- and long-term? How will the next Presidential administration deal with these threats? These questions and more are addressed by FPRI Senior Fellows Barak Mendelsohn and Cole Bunzel.

New York Historical Society

On C-SPAN: Revolutions in Military Affairs 
Paul J. Springer, Senior Fellow, FPRI
A lecture sponsored by the New York Historical Society and FPRI
May 21, 2016

Throughout history, military leaders have sought new ways to obtain military advantages when major changes in the nature of warfare threatened to upset the status quo. Napoleon was at the forefront of harnessing the power of a people-in-arms, using rising nationalism to create enormous armies that swept through Europe. Grant fought the American Civil War using much-improved technology that made obsolete everything he had learned about military tactics and strategy. Eisenhower managed a war effort between competing allies that involved major technological changes, including the emergence of atomic weapons. In the past 15 years, the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama have been quick to field the latest military technology from drones to cyber war. This lecture narrated the history of “revolutions in military affairs” and the lessons for today.

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