Here on the Bear Market Brief, a lot of what we focus on is, simply put, risk: what might happen, and what might it mean?

Czech President Petr Pavel, in a statement to the press on May 15, 2025, complimented the leaders of the country’s main ...

This month, we’re zeroing in on a core tension in US strategy toward China: how to strike the right balance between ...

West Point graduate who had a 20 year army career including assignments in special operations.  He then had a second career in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations and was a member of the Senior ...

July 1, 2025, marks two years since the first conscripts began their 11-month service under Latvia’s renewed conscription system, known as the National ...

Two recent essays published by the Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) rekindle ...

Purchase Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and ...

The Foreign Policy Research Institute is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges ...

The western Balkans, including Bosnia and Kosovo, were the scene of some of the bloodiest warfare and atrocities in Europe ...

Burkina Faso is many things. The country is considered to be the epicenter of global terrorism today. It is ranked number one ...