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Monday, January 9, 2017

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New Publications

FPRI's Mac Owens Reviews Eliot Cohen's new book The Big Stick

The Weekly Standard, January 16, 2017

FPRI's Walter McDougall on President-elect Donald Trump

The American Review of Books, Blogs, and Bull, January 9, 2017
Reprinted with the Permission of the Liberty Fund, publisher of the Online Library of Law and Liberty

FPRI's Ron Granieri on President-elect Trump

Al Majalla, January 3, 2017

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Re-Shuffling of the Cards in Lebanon: Meet the New Government

Benedetta Berti, Robert A. Fox Fellow, FPRI
FPRI E-Notes, January 9, 2017

Sectarianism and War in Iraq and Syria

Brandon Friedman, Senior Fellow, FPRI
Uzi Rabi, Director, Moshe Dayan Center
FPRI E-Notes, January 5, 2017

Pulling to the Extremes: Israel, the U.N. Security Council, and Amona

Tamar Friedman, Associate Scholar, FPRI
Geopoliticus: The FPRI Blog, January 5, 2017

COLCHIS: Nato’s return on investment

Michael Cecire, Fellow, FPRI
bne IntelliNews, January 6, 2017

Stopover Hysteria: Understanding Tsai’s Stopover in the United States

Thomas J. Shattuck, Research Associate, FPRI
Geopoliticus: The FPRI Blog, January 4, 2017

A Presidential Strategy Board: Enabling Strategic Competence

Frank G. Hoffman, Board of Advisors, FPRI
Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
FPRI E-Notes, January 3, 2017

Book of the Week

Misunderstanding Terrorism

Marc Sageman,
Senior Fellow, FPRI

BackChannel

FPRI Symposium

Thursday, January 26
Union League of Philadelphia

25 Years since the
Fall of the USSR:
Where is Eurasia Headed?

Butcher History Institute

Saturday March 25 –
Sunday, March 26
First Division Museum at Cantigny Park

Why Does America
Go To War?

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