Russian information operations in Africa are a tool to expand Russia’s presence on the continent and to turn African countries into allies of Russia in its ...

As geopolitical conflicts are increasingly shaped by misleading and deceptive information, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) ...

On November 13, 2024, the Foreign Policy Research Institute will present Jared Isaacman with the 18th Annual Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service.

Once touted as the “Iron Lady” of Asia, Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was both the longest-serving Bangladeshi head of state and the ...

Joe Stradinger is CEO and co-founder of EdgeTheory, a narrative intelligence technology company that provides AI-based ...

Research Assistant with the Middle East Institute’s Program on Strategic Technologies and Cybersecurity. He received his M.P.P. from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and his B.A. from UC ...

In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial Russia and ...

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry ...

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 ...

Although “democracy promotion” has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition. While some countries quickly democratize, others lag ...