New Publications
 What Should We Make Of The Islamic State’s Ramadan Wave Of Violence?
Clint Watts, Robert A. Fox Fellow, FPRI
Geopoliticus: The FPRI Blog, July 5, 2016
"The Islamic State has taken the final week of Ramadan to make a big statement: “We will not go quietly.” In the last seven days the terror group has lashed out in an unprecedented wave of suicide bombings and other attacks around the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia."
 Bangladesh's Homegrown Problem
Sumit Ganguly, Senior Fellow, FPRI
Ali Riaz, Professor of Politics and Government, Illinois State University
Foreign Affairs, July 6 2016
"The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for much of the bloodshed [in Bangladesh]. The group’s formal claim aside, it is not entirely clear whether it masterminded the attacks. What is clear, however, is that the government of Sheikh Hasina Wajed has continued to deny that the terrorist group has a presence in her country at all."
 Horrific ISIS Attacks During Ramadan Disguise a Retreating and Fracturing Terror Group
Clint Watts, Robert A. Fox Fellow, FPRI
WorldPost on Huffington Post, July 6, 2016
"The world should also brace for continuing waves of suicide attacks and hostage-taking assaults...With so many foreign fighters unable to return home, ISIS will use every last devotee to inflict as many casualties as possible"
 Georgia’s NATO Aspirations: Rhetoric and Reality
Col. Robert E. Hamilton, Dept. of National Security and Strategy, U.S. Army War College
FPRI E-Notes, July 2016
"Georgia is not likely to be admitted to NATO in the near future and Tbilisi’s westward course is not irreversible. These facts are regrettable, since Georgia has done more than enough to qualify for Alliance membership, and since most Georgians do see themselves as belonging to the European family of nations."
 Retreating Ashore: The Flaws of Offshore Balancing
Frank G. Hoffman, Board of Advisors, FPRI
Geopoliticus: The FPRI Blog, July 5, 2016
"OSB is less of a strategy about how to secure U.S. interests more efficiently, and is more of a dodge. Overall, this strategic approach cedes the initiative and our national interests to another power until that power, a friend or foe, takes actions that we deem unacceptable."
 If the Atlantic Ocean is the New Black Sea, What’s the Black Sea? Aegis Ashore and the Black Sea Region’s Changing Security Dynamic
John R. Haines, Senior Fellow, FPRI
FPRI E-Notes, July 2016
"So while the place of the Black Sea (and the Mediterranean) in Russia's newest maritime doctrine may be subsumed strategically to the Atlantic Ocean, it does not diminish the Russian Black Sea Fleet's critical sea-denial role."
 Limits of Chinese Friendship: China’s Development Loans to Venezuela
Felix K. Chang, Senior Fellow, FPRI
Geopoliticus: The FPRI Blog, June 24, 2016
"True friends are tested in adversity. Clearly, the Maduro government’s growing inability to repay its loans to China has put their relationship in a difficult spot. Equally clear is that Beijing’s desire to recoup as much as possible from its development loans to Venezuela."
 Are the Palestinians Thinking the Unthinkable?
Adam Garfinkle, Robert A. Fox Fellow, FPRI
Walter Russell Mead, Editor at Large, The American Interest
The American Interest, June 22 2016
"Nothing in this part of the world is going to clear up in a hurry, but the lack of the usual strident reaction to any suggestion that Palestinian negotiators should “never” put off-the-table questions on the table is, as far as it goes, an encouraging sign."
 Latvia’s Debate About Russian Propaganda
Una Bergmane, Senior Fellow, FPRI
Baltic Bulletin, July 2016
"In the context of Russia’s aggression in Eastern Ukraine and tensions in Russia-EU relations, the so-called “information war” between Russia and the West has become a journalistic buzzword, a rhetorical tool in political debates, and a source of deep concern for Russia’s neighbors."
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