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Monday, March 20, 2017

Bad News for FPRI, Good News for the Country

We are sorry to have to cancel the March 29 BookTalk by Nadia Schadlow on her new book Governance and the Art of War (see our Book of the Week). However, we are happy to note her appointment, announced last week, as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Strategy. It may be FPRI's loss, but it is the country's gain.

FPRI’s Clint Watts on Russian Information Operations

For many years, FPRI Fox Fellow Clint Watts has been tracking jihadis online; in 2014, he stumbled across Russian trolls and in 2016 initiated a series of essays on his research findings, warning of the Russian attempt to erode trust in democratic institutions.

How Russia Dominates Your Twitter to Promote Lies (and Trump, too), Daily Beast, August 6, 2016

Trolling for Trump: How Russia is Trying to Destroy our Democracy, War on the Rocks, November 6, 2016

How Russia Wins an Election, Politico Magazine, December 13, 2016

Can the Michelin Model Fix Fake News?, Daily Beast, January 22, 2017

Is Trump Russia’s Manchurian Candidate? No, and Here’s Why, Geopoliticus: The FPRI Blog, March 6, 2017

Fake News and Russian Information Operations, Main Line Briefings, March 9, 2017

New Publications

The Moroccan King Dismisses an Islamist Prime Minister

Vish Sakthivel, Robert A. Fox Fellow, FPRI
Geopoliticus: The FPRI Blog, March 17, 2017

Is Donald Trump a Realist?

Dov S. Zakheim, Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, FPRI
The National Interest, March 17, 2017

Counterinsurgency From the Bottom Up: Colonel H.R. McMaster and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Tel Afar, Spring-Fall 2005

Mackubin T. Owens, Senior Fellow, FPRI
FPRI E-Notes, March 17, 2017

Donald Trump is No Friend of Taiwan

Shelley Rigger, Senior Fellow, FPRI
FPRI E-Notes, March 16, 2017

Making NATO Less “Obsolete”

Frank G. Hoffman, Distinguished Research Fellow,
Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
FPRI E-Notes, March 15, 2017

Reject Populists’ Slogans and Work Hard to Make Things Better, Gontareva Urges

Melinda Haring, Fellow, FPRI
Atlantic Council, March 15, 2017

F-16s, Made in India

Sumit Ganguly, Senior Fellow, FPRI
Foreign Affairs, March 14, 2017

Event Reminders

Briefings, Booktalks, and Conversations

A Conversation on the Future of Israel and Palestine

Tuesday, March 28
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
National Liberty Museum

Amb. Maen Rashid Areikat of Palestine
& Alan Luxenberg, President, FPRI

Note: Space is limited.

Princeton Committee of FPRI

The Geopolitics of U.S. Patent Law

Thursday, March 30
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Present Day Club

Lawrence Husick,
Co-director, Wachman Center’s Program on Teaching Innovation, FPRI

Book of the Week

War and the Art of Governance:
Consolidating Combat Success into Political Victory

Nadia Schadlow

"Why is American military success on the battlefield not yielding successful political outcomes? In this critically crafted must-read before we enter another war, Dr. Schadlow lays out the post-combat challenges no amount of denial will excuse, persuasively charting what history tells us is required for our military victories to achieve a better peace."

― James Mattis

Quote of the Week

"[Merkel] and Trump are very different personalities. . . .
I think that she would like very much for the relationship between Germany and the U.S. to be as low-drama as possible."

Washington Examiner

Ronald Granieri,
Executive Director.
Center for the Study of America and the West,
FPRI

Scholars on the Road

America and Iraq:
Past, Present and Future?

Wednesday, April 5, 2017
7:00pm

Civic Hall, Connector Building, Blackwood Campus,
Camden County College

Samuel Helfont,
Robert A. Fox Fellow

Scholar Updates

Senior Fellow Michael Horowitz was recently selected as the 2017 recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award by the International Studies Association.

The award is presented annually to a scholar who has made a significant impact in the field of international relations and peace research in the first 10 years of his or her career.

The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids, IA, has hired Associate Scholar Kevin J. McNamara as a consultant for a forthcoming exhibit, Guts & Glory: The War Train that Shaped a Nation, which is scheduled to open in April 1918.

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