2021 ANNUAL REPORT
2021 ANNUAL REPORT
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The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is a nonpartisan Philadelphia-based think tank dedicated to strengthening U.S. national security and improving American foreign Establishedpolicy.
in 1955 by the noted 20th century geopolitical strategist, Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé, FPRI was founded on the premise that an informed and educated citizenry is essential for the United States to understand complex international issues and formulate foreign policy. FPRI remains committed to this principle and strives to inform both policymakers and the general public through FPRI research and educational FPRIprograms.isanonpartisan 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and takes no institutional positions on issues and conducts no advocacy. The organization has six main research programs, covering U.S. National Security, the Middle East, Eurasia, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Each program produces reports, articles, public events, and private briefings for policymakers, FPRI members, and the general public.
2021 ANNUAL REPORT Letter from the President 2021 By the Numbers Who We Are OrbisStaff SpecialStaffFellows Our Research Asia CenterAfricaNationalMiddleEurasiaProgramProgramEastProgramSecurityProgramProgramfortheStudyofAmerica and the West Geopolitics Orbis: Journal of World Affairs Events Education Internship Program Support & Finances Board of Trustees Financial Summary 1 2 5 12116 17 383635343231302019 41 44 49 5450 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Our research program, under the direction of Dr. Aaron Stein, covered a full range of issues from the troubled U.S. exit from Afghanistan to the worrying behavior of an increasingly aggressive and expansionist China, to the concerning moves of a bellicose and predatory Russia. We focused on these and other important global developments to carry out our important mission which -- at its essence -- is to educate policy makers, the general public, and the next generation. Our audience also grew exponentially, both across the U.S. and globally, thanks to our many virtual events, the quality of our articles and reports, and the presence of many of our scholars and experts in the major media. More importantly, FPRI’s audience soared in large part because of the relevance of international affairs to our world and the need for FPRI’s nonpartisan, in-depth analysis to inform the national and global dialogue.
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The Eurasia Program also hosted 30 affiliated scholars, including a Black Sea Fellow, a Central Asia Fellow, three Baltic Sea Fellow. The program also named Dr. Nicolas Gvosdev, editor of Orbis, and Johan Norberg as special Eurasia Fellows.
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Research Institute continued to deal with the impact of the global pandemic as it shaped the world around us and affected not only the topics we covered but the manner in which we worked.
Our Asia Program, under the able direction of Dr. Jacques deLisle and Deputy Director Ryan Neuhard, had many accomplishments this year, first and foremost the establishment of the FPRI China Center, dedicated to covering the China’s global impact particularly in the areas of geoeconomics and technology. Our Asia scholars also covered a full range of other issues, including the rise of China’s digital currency, the new AUKUS alliance, and the emergence of new military and defense technologies and strategies in the region. The Asia Program also hosted eighteen events and the work our scholars was frequently featured in major media and publication.
The Eurasia Program is FPRI’s largest research program, focusing on the political, security, economic, and social trends in this region and publishing more that fifty articles, eight long reports, ten podcasts, and hosting six public events, six scholars’ meetings, and eighteen private briefings for policymakers and policy-influencers.
Under the leadership of Program Director Chris Miller and Deputy Program Director Maia Otarashvili, the program also provided research and analysis to the US Department of Defense’s European Command on Russia’s defense sector. Russia’s military build-up and increasingly aggressive stance toward Ukraine became a major focus in 2021, and our research also tracked developments that influence politics and security in the Baltic Sea and Black Sea regions. Our newest project focused on the geopolitics and geoeconomics of the Central Asia region.
Public Events 87 2021 BY THE NUMBERS increase in Twitter followers 14% Publications 178 62% increase in Youtube followers 800+ Media Citations 32OK+ Social media fans 40% increase in podcast downloads FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2
FPRI’s Education Program also hosted simulations and a new certificate program for high school students, developed and presented by Ronald Granieri, FPRI’s Executive Director of the Center for the Study of America and the West and a Senior Fellow. In 2021, FPRI also initiated a Life-Long Learning Program, featuring Ron Granieri, who led a series of seminars at the Waverley Heights Community in Gladwyne, PA. The response was highly enthusiastic and the program has been extended to 2022 and FPRI’sbeyond.Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair for Geopolitics Robert D. Kaplan published The Good American, featuring Robert Gersony, a longtime consultant for the U.S. State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development whose first-hand reports on war zones and humanitarian crises influenced decision-making for several decades. Kaplan also hosted the Global Demons Podcast featuring preeminent foreign policy experts discussing the critical issues and challenges facing the U.S. and its allies in this new era of great power rivalry. Kaplan also gave the 25th Annual Templeton Lecture on Religion and Global Affairs and spoke about transitions in geopolitics, technology, climate change, urbanization, and alienation and the impact of these trends on religion and belief in the 21st century.
With all best wishes, Carol “Rollie” Flynn President
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Inauthors.therealm of multi-media, Director of Research Aaron Stein hosted the bi-weekly podcast series Chain Reaction which features interviews with experts discussing global developments that are relevant U.S. foreign policy and national security interests. Under the Chain Reaction banner, FPRI also hosts two additional podcasts: Climate Change, Migrations, and National Security, hosted by FPRI Distinguished Senior Fellow Clint Watts and the Bear Market Brief about Russian, Ukraine, and the post-Soviet region featuring Research Fellow Aaron FinallySchwartzbaum.–andmost importantly – I would like to thank our donors and supporters without whom we could not fulfill our important mission to make America a nation that, as our founder Strausz-Hupé would say, “thinks before it acts.” We do this by educating policymakers, the general public, and the next generation through our in-depth research and analysis of the important issues of the day. Our mission could not be more relevant and I thank you for providing the support that enables us to carry on this vital work. We are most grateful!
The National Security Program published Program Chair Hon. John F. Lehman’s book, co-authored by Steven Wills, Where are the Carriers: U.S. National Strategy and the Choices Ahead.
FPRI sponsored several in-person events featuring the authors speaking about this book which examined the history and role of carriers to naval aviation. The program also published several articles and held several events which provided in-depth analysis of the U.S. pull-out from Afghanistan.
Program Chair Walter McDougall gave this year’s Annual GinsburgSatell Lecture on the subject of Philadelphia’s Stephen Girard, a one-eyed immigrant from France, who amassed a fortune and whose notable acts include leading the city’s campaign against the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, bankrolling the U.S. fight against Great Britain during the War of 1812, and funding major philanthropic projects.
FPRI’s quarterly journal of world affairs Orbis also had a banner year. Editor Nikolas K. Gvosdev, who is also a Senior Fellow in our Eurasia Program, introduced several new features including Revisiting Orbis, which highlighted articles from the past to provide historical context to current global events. We also initiated an effort to broaden our audience by disseminating Orbis articles across social media and hosting several well-attended virtual events on Zoom featuring Orbis
FPRI’s Africa Program was officially launched in June 2021, hosting three Templeton research fellows and publishing over a dozen articles and hosting eight events. With Program Chair Ambassador Charles Ray at the helm, the program had a broad focus that included the conflict in Ethiopia and Tigray, the economic impact of climate change in Africa, great power competition in China, and U.S. engagement on the African continent. The program has resonated with audiences and one of the events focused on the EthiopiaTigray has received over 26,000 views. The 2021 summer edition of Orbis also focused on Africa and its impact on geopolitics and the global Theeconomy.Center for the Study of America and the West initiated the Robert Strausz-Hupé Project: The Atlantic System in a World of Great Power Rivalry to examine the history and the role of the Atlantic System, defined as the formal and informal institutions that constituted the Western alliances during the Cold War and its aftermath. FPRI hosted several events that examined various aspects of the western and transAtlantic alliances, and how the role and impact of these alliances has developed and changed over time.
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COLLY BURGWIN Director of Finance Colly brings to FPRI over twenty years of experience in Finance and Accounting positions for Philadelphia nonprofit agencies. Organizations he was worked with include: Green Tree School, the Philadelphia Senior Center, Center in the Park, and the YWCA of Philadelphia. He holds an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Wharton, an MFA in Theatre Administration from the Yale Drama School, and a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University.
AARON STEIN Director of Research Aaron also hosts the Arms Control Wonk and the Chain Reaction podcasts. He holds a BA in politics from the University of San Francisco and an MA in international policy studies with a specialization in nonproliferation from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He received his PhD in Middle East and Mediterranean studies at Kings College, London.
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CAROL “ROLLIE” FLYNN President A thirty-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Ms. Flynn held senior executive positions including Director of CIA’s Leadership Academy, Director of the Office of Foreign Intelligence Relationships, Associate Deputy Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Executive Director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center, and Chief of Station in major posts in Southeast Asia and Latin America. She has extensive experience in over seas intelligence operations, security, and counterintel ligence.
NATALIA KOPYTNIK Director of Communications & Strategic Outreach
TARA SPENCER Membership and Administration Manager Tara studied Political Science and Sociology at Howard University. Tara also enjoys her work as a Virtual Executive Assistant. She partners with various thoughtleaders, c-suite executives, and entrepreneurs, providing project management and administrative assistance. She brings over twenty years of administrative professionalism and has worked for the American Psychiatric Association as Membership Administrative Manager, and the United Negro College Fund as Executive Assistant to the CIO.
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MAIA OTARASHVILI
Natalia leads FPRI’s communications team and oversees the design, production, and promotion of FPRI’s research and visual communication products. These include report design and layout, information graphics, data visualizations, web and interactive design. She also produces FPRI’s Chain Reaction and Bear Market Brief podcasts. She received her BA. in History from Temple University and her MA in Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Deputy Director of Research Deputy Director, Eurasia Program
Maia’s research interests include geopolitics and security of the Black Sea-Caucasus region, Russian foreign policy, and the post-Soviet “frozen” conflicts of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria. Maia is a PhD candidate at the War Studies Department at King’s College, London. She holds an MA in Globalization, Development and Transition from the University of Westminster in London, with emphasis on postauthoritarian transitions.
Research Assistant Leah received her Master of Science in Global Affairs from New York University, where she concentrated in Transnational Security and specialized in Global Gender Studies. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Modern Foreign Languages & Literature from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Kayla coordinates the logistics for virtual and in-person events, helps to produce the Global Demons Podcast, and works with the development team to fundraise for FPRI events, research, and programming. Kayla received her Master of International Affairs from the Penn State School of International Affairs, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and History from Pennsylvania State University.
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KAYLA WENDT Events and Development Coordinator
LEAH PEDRO Research Communications Coordinator
RYAN NEUHARD Deputy Director, Asia Program Ryna Neuhard is the Deputy Director of FPRI’s Asia Program. His research focuses on security issues related to military, economic, and technology developments in the Indo-Pacific region. Ryan holds an MA in security studies from Georgetown University and a BA in international relations from the College of William and Mary.
SHANE MASON Executive Editor Before FPRI, Shane was the managing editor at War On The Rocks, where he led editorial operations and hosted the Warcast podcast. Previously, he was senior market analyst at Avascent Analytics, a research associate at the Stimson Center’s South Asia program, and a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
GINA SHAPIRO Director of Development Ms. Shapiro is responsible for the overall strategy and implementation of a comprehensive institutional advancement program designed to expand and increase philanthropic support for FPRI. Prior to joining FPRI, Gina worked as a development officer in the health care and higher education sectors. She received a BA from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
SPENCER JONES
Executive Assistant to the President
Mr. Jones received his Master of Advanced International Studies from The Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Trinity College (CT), where he concentrated in Comparative Politics.
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JACQUES DELISLE Director, Asia Program
He is also the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Pro fessor of Political Science, and Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in Chinese politics and legal reform, U.S.-China relations, cross-strait relations, and China’s engagement with the international legal order.
Chris is also Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His research examines Russian politics, foreign policy, and economics. His latest book is We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin.
CHRIS MILLER Director, Eurasia Program
RONALD J. GRANIERI Executive Director, Center for the Study of America and the West Ron is the host of People, Politics, and Prose, a monthly series of events for FPRI Members. He is also Associate Professor of History in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College.
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ANN HART Managing Editor, Orbis Ann has been involved in fundraising at the high school, college and the graduate school levels, and worked as a Program Associate at both The Pew Charitable Trusts and The John Templeton Foundation. Earlier in her career, Ann worked in the private sector in communications for State Street Bank, Boston, and CNA Insurance Companies, Chicago. She received her BA in Literature from Wheaton College and an Master’s in Journalism from Temple University.
JAKUB GRYGIEL Book Review Editor, Orbis He is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of America. In 2017-18, he was a senior advisor to the Secretary of State in the Office of Policy Planning, working on European affairs.
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NIKOLAS K. GVOSDEV Editor, Orbis: FPRI’s Journal of World Affairs
Nikolas is also Senior Fellow in FPRI’s Eurasia Program. He is also a Professor of National Security Affairs, holding the Captain Jerome E. Levy Chair in Economic Geography and National Security at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He was formerly the Editor of The National Interest magazine and a Senior Fellow at The Nixon Center in Washington, D.C. Gvosdev received his doctorate from St Antony’s College, Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship.
Clint is also Non-Resident Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy. He is also a national security contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. He recently examined the rise of social media influence by publishing his first book entitled Messing With The Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians and Fake News.
Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics
CLINT WATTS Distinguished Research Fellow
WOLFGANG SCHWANTIZ Bernard Lewis Fellow Wolfgang G. Schwanitz is the inaugural Bernard Lewis Fellow in the Middle East Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from Leipzig University, has taught at five German and American universities, and served as head of Middle Eastern history at the Academy of Science in Berlin. Schwanitz has been a visiting fellow at the French Center in Cairo, Princeton University, and the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
Robert Kaplan is the bestselling author of nineteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the U. S. Navy’s Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
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Mengge Li is a Templeton Fellow in the Africa Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and an Assistant Professor at University of Texas at El Paso, where he teaches international business and corporate strategy classes. He received a PhD in Business Administration from University of Houston and a MS in Information Systems and Operations Management from University of Florida.
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Dr. Hermann A. Ndofor is a Templeton Fellow in the Africa Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is currently a faculty member at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University and Associate Editor for the Africa Journal of Management. He received a PhD in Management from the University of WisconsinMilwaukee. Prior to joining the Kelley School of Business in 2015, he was on the faculty at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M.
Dr. Carla D. Jones is a Templeton Fellow in FPRI’s Africa Program and an Associate Professor in the Management, Marketing & IS department of the College of Business at Sam Houston State University. Her research interests focus on the influence of executives. She primarily examines how the leadership of a firm influences firm outcomes.
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Dr. Lawrence Rubin is an Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. His research interests include Middle East politics and international security with a specific focus on intra-regional relations, religion and politics, nuclear proliferation, and emerging technologies. Dr. Rubin was also the guest editor of the fall 2020 Orbis special issue on national security and technology.
Dr. Barbara Fick is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program and a U.S. Army Colonel, servings as Director of the Americas Program and Faculty Instructor at the Department of National Security at the U.S. Army War College. COL Fick has a PhD in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, a Master of Arts in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the University of Tennessee, a Master of Education from the University of Oklahoma, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs – Latin American Studies from Lafayette College.
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Anton Louthan is a Fellow and Research Assistant in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Having lived and worked in China, Anton’s research revolves around Chinese economic statecraft, with a particular interest in measuring the political impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative with China’s trading partners. He holds an MA in East Asian Studies from Georgetown University with a concentration in the politics and security of Asia.
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INTRODUCTION
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- Aaron Stein Director of Research
The Foreign Policy Research Institute focused on two core themes in 2021: Russia and China. These two global powers shaped how each program approached research themes and topics this past year. As part of this effort, FPRI launched the China Center, which is committed to studying China’s strategic behavior, advancing U.S. national security, and promoting a free and open Indo-Pacific. The Eurasia Program focused on the crisis in Ukraine and the broader challenges Russia poses to American interests in Europe. The Middle East and National Security Programs also focused on developments in Russia, looking specifically at security challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Seas. FPRI’s Africa Program expanded its focus and examined in depth the conflict in Ethiopia; grounding analysis on the core assumption that Africa matters for U.S. foreign policy. Looking ahead to 2022, the two main foci of FPRI’s research will continue to be Russia and China, American interests in Africa, and in-depth studies on how issues such as economic and technology impact American foreign policy.
During 2021, the Asia Program and its guest contributors produced approximately twenty two publications on important topics shaping foreign policy in Asia ranging from the emergence of China’s digital currency to the continued development of US alliance frameworks like the Quad and AUKUS. In an effort to better inform the public, scholars in the Asia Program hosted 18 public events with leading experts who explained the nuances of hypersonic weapon tests, air defense identification zone violations, and many other complex topics in clear, approachable terms intended for non-expert audiences.
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FPRI’s Asia scholars also made numerous media appearances to help explain current events to the public with Director Jacques deLisle appearing as an expert commentator in at least seventeen news stories from outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Vox.
China Center
The Asia Program took several steps to expand its research capabilities and pave the way for more in-depth Asia analysis in the future. Two of these steps included hiring the Asia Program’s first full-time research staff member and establishing its new China Center, which officially launched in early 2022 and focuses on studying the economic and technology dimensions of the US-China competition. The research team within the China Center plans to develop a program featuring long-term policy-relevant research projects, strategic dialogues between the United States and its allies and partners, and a robust internship program training the next generation of China analysts.
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FPRI’s Asia team accomplished much in 2021 and will build upon this success by significantly expanding its work in 2022 and the years to follow.
The program also publishes analyses of Russian foreign policy, including Russia’s role in Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East. The Russia Political Economy Project, along with BMB Russia, analyzes the linkages between Russia’s economy and its political system. The Eurasia Program’s thematic initiatives
also include the Democracy at Risk rubric, which examines the trends of democratization and authoritarian pushback in the region. The Central Asia Initiative is our newest project dedicated to examining the geopolitics and geoeconomics of the rapidly changing region and informing U.S. policymakers and policy-influencers on matters that affect U.S. national interests.
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EURASIA PROGRAM The Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute was founded in 2015 with the aim of examining the political, security, economic, and social trends shaping Europe and Eurasia. Our research agenda covers the increasingly tense competition roiling the region from several angles. It has a multi-year focus on the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, emphasizing how geography, economics, ideology, and history continue to shape politics and security in both regions.
Currently the Eurasia Program includes 30 affiliated scholars, five thematic initiatives, and seven regular publication series. In January 2021 we appointed a Black Sea Fellow, a Central Asia Fellow, three Baltic Sea Fellows, and named Dr. Nick Gvosdev and Johan Norberg as our special Eurasia Fellows for the year.
Baltic Initiative
The Baltic Initiative analyzes the geopolitics, geo-economics, defense and security issues of the Baltic Sea region, and their role in European security as well as their implications to the United States. The Baltic Bulletins feature research by both American experts and analysts from the Baltic States and Central Europe. The monthly Baltic Roundup newsletter, authored by Dr. Indra Ekmanis, the Editor of the Baltic Bulletin, regularly sums up major political, cultural, and economic events in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
In January 2021 we appointed three Baltic Sea Fellows. Una Bergmane, Indra Ekmanis, and Linas Kojala are driving FPRI’s focus on political and security issues in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and on NATO-Russia
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During 2021 we published over fifty articles, including eight long reports and ten podcasts. We also held six public events, six scholars’ meetings and gave 18 private briefings with policymakers and policy-influencers within and outside the United States. Most of our public events were held over Zoom, bringing together over 2,000 audience members and dozens of scholars and experts from all over the world. In 2022 we are devoting extra effort to engaging with and empowering our partner scholars and organizations in the region, and finding new ways of studying and analyzing the issues. Notably, our partnership with the Eastern Europe Studies Center in Vilnius and the Atlantic Council of Georgia in Tbilisi have produced half a dozen meetings, briefings, brainstorming sessions and joint publications.
Black Sea Initative FPRI’s Black Sea Initiative analyzes the region from the perspective of security, domestic politics, economics, and energy. Home to frozen conflicts in Moldova, Georgia, and now Ukraine, surrounded by major geopolitical actors such as Russia and Turkey, EU member states—Bulgaria and Romania, and crucial energy transit routes, the challenges of the Black Sea region influence all of Europe and Eurasia. We closely monitor these issues through our series of publications including the Black Sea Strategy Papers, BMB Ukraine, and other FPRI publications. Over the past five years we have built a sizable network of scholars and experts both in the United States and in the Black Sea region itself. We support their work by sponsoring field research, publishing their findings, and organizing public and private lectures, briefings, and Inconferences.2021Dr.Robert Hamilton returned as the Black Sea Fellow at FPRI. Throughout 2021, much of his work has focused on Russia-Turkey relations, and the future of the Russia-China alliance. FPRI has teamed up with Atlantic Council of Georgia and the Business and Technology University in Tbilisi to launch a joint initiative on Black Sea Strategic Connectivity. The initiative brings together scholars and experts from
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22 relations in the Baltic Sea region more generally. In collaboration with Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Lithuania we have organized briefings, events, brainstorming sessions, and joint publications exploring the future of U.S.Baltic relations, the role of Belarus in the Baltic Sea region, and Russia’s military activities there.
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Russia Political Economy Project
In late 2017 we inaugurated the Russia Political Economy Project, which publishes research papers providing a clear-eyed assessment of Russian political economy trends. The program is based on the notion that American analysis of Russia has too often projected its own ideas and politics onto Russia rather than understanding how Russia’s leaders think. Rather than trying to maximize their population’s wealth, Russia’s leaders see economics as a tool for projecting Russian power on the international stage. The Russia Political Economy Project provides deep research on key themes on Russian political economy. In 2019 the project produced a series of reports mapping how Russia uses economic tools to achieve foreign policy leverage. These reports examined Russia’s interests in Asia, the history of Russian propaganda and interference in other countries, Russia’s economic ties to Venezuela, Russia’s energy politics, Russia-Belarus relations, and Russia’s history of imperial expansion. In 2020 and 2021 the project has focused on assisting the U.S. European Command’s Russia Strategic Initiative with research regarding Russia’s military industrial complex and economic treds related to Russia’s defense sector, and will conduct research for the Department of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment, focusing on Russia’s technological future.
In June 2019 we inaugurated FPRI’s Central Asia Initiative, inspired by concern that America was losing focus on the region even as it was becoming a center of geopolitical competition. As the region’s old post-Soviet dictators leave the scene, a new generation must reckon with Russia and China, both of which are trying to shape the region’s politics and economics. Both Russia and China also have competing integration schemes for the region, with Moscow pushing the Eurasian Economic Union and Beijing advocating the Belt and Road. FPRI’s Central Asia Initiative will objective analysis of trends in Central Asia, informing policymakers and the public on matters that affect U.S. national interests, including energy; the Belt and Road Initiative; terrorism and extremism; and competition between powers such as China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran. In January 2021 we appointed Max Hess and Niva Yao as FPRI Central Asia Fellows. We have also partnered up with the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. Through our partnership we jointly produce monthly Central Asia papers featuring the voices of seasoned and emerging scholars and experts of Central Asia.
FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 24 REPORTS LITHUANIA’S IMPORTANCE FOR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY NIKOLAS K. GVOSDEV BLACK SEA INITIATIVE RUSSIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WEST COOPERATION, COMPETITION, AND COMPARTMENTALIZATION: Robert E. Hamilton Anna Mikulska BLACK SEA INITIATIVE Strategic Connectivity in the Black Sea: BLACK SEA INITIATIVE A FOCUS ON GEORGIA BATU KUTELIA VASIL ‘DATO’ SIKHARULIDZE
2021 ANNUAL REPORT 25 William Spiegelberger Why the Putin Regime Causes, Deplores, and Yet Relies on Capital Flight for its Survival EURASIA PROGRAM ROB LEE WHY DID THE KREMLIN MASS ITS FORCES NEAR UKRAINE? SHOW OF STRENGTH DESPITE COVID-19 EURASIA PROGRAM MAXIM STARCHAK LABS OVER FABS HOW THE U.S. SHOULD INVEST IN THE FUTURE SEMICONDUCTORSOF
The podcast’s title is a reference to the Baltic Way demonstration of 1989, in which two million Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians joined hands in a 690-kilometer human chain in protest of Soviet occupation. The logo draws inspiration from the Spīdola radios produced at VEF in Riga, Latvia, in the 1970s.
BALTIC WAYS PODCAST
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Baltic Ways provides listeners insights and interviews about the Baltic states. The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is pleased to introduce Baltic Ways, a new podcast created in partnership with the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
Baltic(AABS).Ways provides listeners insights and interviews about the Baltic states. It is hosted by Dr. Indra Ekmanis, Baltic Sea Fellow and Editor of Baltic Bulletin at FPRI. The podcast explores the past, present, and future of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—and the many ways that these three countries impact the politics, history, and culture of the region and beyond.
•segments:BearMarket Brief, hosted by Research Fellow Aaron Schwartzbuam, explores politics, economics, and their intersection in Russia, Ukraine, and the postSoviet space.
Chain Reaction also hosts two special
• Climate Change, Migration, and National Security, hosted by Distinguished Research Fellow Clint Watts.
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CHAIN REACTION PODCAST
The Chain Reaction podcast is a bi-weekly series examining America’s role in the world.
The Chain Reaction podcast is a biweekly series examining America’s role in the world. Hosted by FPRI’s Director of Research, Dr. Aaron Stein, the podcast features interviews with experts about developments in Eurasia, the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific, in the context of U.S. foreign policy and national security interests.
The Bear Market Brief (BMB) podcast explores politics, economics, and their intersection in Russia, Ukraine, and the post-Soviet space.
Felix Light stopped by to discuss Russia’s Duma elections, what they meant, who was involved, and what to Dr.expect.Fabian Burkhardt joined to explain PM Mishustin’s agenda, and what his role means for governance in Russia.
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BEAR MARKET BRIEF PODCAST
Hosted by Eurasia Program Fellow Aaron Schwartzbuam, the BMB podcast explores politics, economics and their intersetion in Russia, Ukraine, and the post-Soviet space. This year,Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, Ben Noble, authors of the book “Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future?” and Eilish Hart, editor of BMB Ukraine, joined to discuss all things Alexei Navalny.
Nick Trickett and Isabel Linzer joined to talk freedom, both on the internet and the ballot box, as Russia prepared for elections in the fall.
Hosted by FPRI’s Robert StrauszHupé Chair in Geopolitics Robert D. Kaplan, this bi-weekly podcast featured interviews with preeminent foreign policy experts discussing the critical issues and challenges facing the U.S. and its allies in this new era of great power rivalry. The topics covered included pandemics, climate change, massive cyber-attacks, and other challenges of a global media age and the impact on potential conflicts between the United States and China, and the United States and Russia. Featured guests included Ambassador Stapleton Roy, General Philip Breedlove, and Clint Watts.
This bi-weekly podcast featured FPRI’s Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics Robert D. Kaplan discussing the critical issues and challenges facing the U.S. and its allies with preeminent foreign policy experts.
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GLOBAL DEMONS PODCAST
MIDDLE EAST PROGRAM
The Middle East Program focused on key issues impacting U.S. foreign policy. Research Director Aaron Stein completed his book, The US War Against ISIS: How America and its Allies Defeated the Ca liphate. The book was published in early January 2022. In addition, Aaron wrote a series of reports on Turkey’s regional poli cy and its approach to the unfolding crisis in Ukraine. The Chain Reaction podcast continued to deliver expert discussions of critical regional issues to an ever-growing Theaudience.Program also convened a conference with the German Institute for Security and International Affairs on the Russian pres ence in Syria and the Eastern Mediterra nean with experts and policymakers from the United States, Europe, and Turkey.
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The National Security Program’s Chair, Hon. John F. Lehman, co-authored a book with Steven Wills on the future of the air craft carrier. The book explored the history of the aircraft carrier and examined why carrier-born naval aviation is important for American national security interests. The program also published a series of reports on the role of special operations forces in the post-9/11 era and the renewed focus on great power competition.
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• U.S.-China competition in Africa and opportunities for collaboration rather than “Great Power Competition”
• The effects of climate change on African economies
The Summer 2021 issue of Orbis establishes Africa as a region to pay attention to for its economic potential,
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• The importance of the U.S. Engagement in Africa and why it should matter to U.S. policymakers Africa Program and Orbis
The Africa Program made its official launch in June 2021 and has successfully hosted three research fellows, published over a dozen articles, hosted 8 events on issues pertaining to various African regions, and established its expertise on US Engagement in Africa. The Africa Program shared its expertise on African defense, peace, and security matters through its events on Ethiopia Tigray and articles produced concerning the Ethiopia-Tigray crisis. Notably, the Africa Program event titled: “Ethiopia: What Does Peace Look Like?” has received over 26,000 Youtube views. The issues that the Program covered—developments regarding the Ethiopia-Tigray crisis, climate change in Africa and its effect on the economy, and the legacy of 9/11 on African civil society—will continue to be core questions for U.S. policymakers.
• Developments and implications of the Ethiopia-Tigray conflict
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The Africa Program and its scholars published over a dozen articles, analyzing topical issues related to:
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Templeton Fellows
The Africa Program hosted three postdoctoral research fellows under the 2021 Templeton Fellowships. Dr. Carla D. Jones, Dr. Hermann A. Ndofor, and Dr. Mengge Li worked on a research report (published in January 2022) titled “Chinese Economic Engagement in Africa: Implications for U.S. Policy.” This report examines Chinese economic engagement in Africa and the percentage of Chinese funding in African development and investment needs. Plans for 2022 In 2022, the Africa Program plans to continue examining the social, economic, and political effects of climate change on African regions and their countries, along with continuing to follow the Ethiopia-Tigray crisis. The Africa Program hopes to put a greater focus on U.S.Africa-China policy and the economic relationship between Africa and China. Scholars and practitioners will focus on the disproportionate rates that women and other marginalized groups in Africa are affected by epidemics, climate change, and security crises through articles, upcoming Africa Program events, and other publications and media
The Africa Program’s chair and FPRI trustee, Ambassador Charles A. Ray, explains the importance of United States engagement in Africa, with his article “Fresh Thinking on U.S. Engagement with Africa: Probing the Limits of Engagement”. Ambassador Ray emphasizes the importance of U.S. engagement in Africa for security interests, but explains the importance of traditional diplomacy when engaging with African countries.
AMERICA & THE WEST
Chair in Geopolitics
As part of this project, FPRI hosted a four-part seminar series on the concept of a Meta-West that addressed this larger system and its capabilities. These events focused on the Meta-West’s powers and functions as a systemic whole, the MetaWest’s roles as geopolitical and geoeconomic systems, and assessed where further research was needed and what policymakers could do to further the goals of the larger Atlantic System. Speakers for the series included former SACEUR General Philip Breedlove, Ambassador Robert Hunter, former president of the World Bank and member of the FPRI Board of Advisors Ambassador Robert Zoellick, and FPRI Robert Strausz-Hupé
Robert D. Kaplan. Program Chair Walter McDougall also gave the fourth Annual Ginsburg-Satell Lecture on American Character and Identity on the remarkable career of Philadelphia’s Stephen Girard, a oneeyed immigrant from France, who literally washed up at Penn’s Landing the very year of the Declaration of Independence. Girard became one of the two richest men in the United States and a civic hero who led the city’s campaign against the terrible yellow fever epidemic of 1793, the nation’s fight against Great Britain during the War of 1812, and founded and funded Girard College for orphaned boys which today remains committed to educating students from single-parent or single-guardian Programfamilies.
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The Center for the Study of America, led by Dr. Walter A. McDougall as Chair and Dr. Ronald Granieri, continued to examine the global impact of developments in America and Western Europe. This year the program launched the Robert StrauszHupé Project: The Atlantic System in a World of Great Power Rivalry, a project to research and analyze the history and the role of the Atlantic System, defined as the formal and informal institutions that constituted the western alliances during the Cold War and its aftermath.
Executive Director Ronald Granieri’s monthly event series People, Politics, and Prose also featured discussion of developments in American and the West including programs on the German election and its impact, French President Emmanuel Macron, and the impact of borders and border policies on the balance between individual rights and security.
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FPRI’s Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair for Geopolitics Robert D. Kaplan hosted the Global Demons Podcast featuring preeminent foreign policy experts discussing the critical issues and challenges facing the U.S. and its allies in this new era of great power rivalry. Guests on the podcast included Ambassador Stapleton Roy, General Philip Breedlove, and Clint Watts. Kaplan also gave the 25th Annual Templeton Lecture on Religion and Global Affairs and spoke about transitions in geopolitics, technology, climate change, urbanization, and alienation and the impact of these trends on religion and belief in the 21st century.
Kaplan also published The Good American, featuring Robert Gersony, a longtime consultant for the U.S. State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development whose first-hand reports on war zones and humanitarian crises influenced decisionmaking for several decades.
GEOPOLITICS
Finally, in the age of Zoom, the editor hosted several Zoom events with Orbis Lookingauthors.forward, in 2022 Orbis celebrates sixty-five years of publication and will feature a special fall volume with contributions from several former editors, among others.
• Summer 2021: “Africa: Pivot Point of the 21st Century?”
Our editor Nikolas K. Gvosdev introduced three new features to keep the conversation going on Orbis’ articles. The first innovation was an FPRI Twitter account where the Orbis editor can highlight related content and Orbis readers and others can weigh in with their ideas.
• Fall 2021: “Catalysts for Change: Emerging Voices in World Affairs.”
•themes:Winter 2021: “Confronting a Post-Pandemic World.”
Orbis®, the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s quarterly journal of world affairs, was founded in 1957 as a forum for policymakers, scholars, and the informed public who sought an engaging, thought-provoking debate beyond the predictable, conventional journals of that time. Orbis continues to offer informative, insightful, and lively discourse on the full range of topics relating to American foreign policy and national security, as well as in-depth analysis on important international developments. We are grateful to our Orbis contributors from the United States and around the world who brought the best of their research and insights to the journal this year.
In 2021, Orbis covered a wide range of relevant topics and offered important context for world events. Specifically, our volumes included the following
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Secondly, we added Orbis Revisited, bringing older articles to the fore to give historical context for current events worldwide.
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• Spring 2021: “Challenges Facing the Biden Administration.”
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Highlights from our events this year included two special briefings on the U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan, which featured Former Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker and Dr. Johnathan Schroeder respectively and our March Main Line Briefing, in which John Nagl was joined by Vice Chief of Space Operations of the U.S. Space Force, General David D. Thompson. We also marked the official launch of our Africa Program this year with a special event featuring former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer and Former Ambassador Herman J. Cohen to discuss the importance of Africa to world affairs. In addition to this launch event, the Africa Program continued to update live and ondemand viewers on the evolving situation in Ethiopia, with videos on the subject receiving over 13,000 YouTube views and reaching over 200 people via live stream.
We were also able to safely restart some in person programming, including two book events celebrating the launch of Former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman’s new book, Where are the Carriers: U.S. National Strategy and the Choices Ahead, and a few small, intimate salons with FPRI’s Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics Robert D. Kaplan.
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In addition, thanks to the generous support of one of our donors, FPRI was able to produce a mini-series on the concept of the “Meta-West” this year. This four-part series was part of the Robert Strausz-Hupé Project, which focused on Western alliances that transcend geographic bounds.
Despite the ongoing pandemic, FPRI remained dedicated to offering thought provoking, nonpartisan public events to educate policymakers, policy influencers, and the general public about the most pressing foreign policy and national security issues facing the United States. FPRI continued to embrace our new virtual environment and adjusted to swiftly changing circumstances to hold limited inperson events. In all, FPRI held over eighty virtual and in-person events in 2021, each reaching audiences larger and more geographically diverse than in previous years. Live event viewers were from locations coast to coast, and even internationally from places as diverse as Africa, Central Europe, South America, and more. On-demand videos of our programs on YouTube were seen over 690,000 times, accounting for over 13.7 million minutes watched! FPRI’s virtual YouTube audience now has over 26,000 subscribers, which is up more than 40 percent from the end of 2020. Our regular event series, like the Main Line Briefings and People, Politics, and Prose with Ron Granieri continued virtually this year, and through them we aimed to be a continued resource for our community—not just here in the Philadelphia area, but across the country and the world.
Our annual events, The GinsburgSatell Lecture on American Identity and Character and the Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs continued virtually once again this year, reaching broader audiences than ever before.
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This year, FPRI continued in the original spirit of the Luxenberg Education Fund, developing programs linking FPRI’s expertise to the education of young people in Philadelphia and across the country.
High School Seminar on Geopolitics Our seminar, entitled What is Geopolitics and Why Does it Matter? reached sixty students around the globe, who were able to receive a certificate for their attendance. Students who attended the seminar were trained on how to view world events through the lens of history, geography, and culture through case studies on critical geopolitical issues, including Afghanistan, the Global Supply Chain, and the Korean Peninsula. Virtual Historical Simulations Building on our successful partnership with the Museum of the American Revolution, FPRI developed a series of virtual simulations centered around key foreign policy decisions in American History: the Declaration of Independence, the War of 1812, the League of Nations, and the Authorization for the Use of Force in Iraq. In addition to playing the roles of actual historical figures, students are asked to complete a series of short essays intended to develop both a sense of historical empathy and critical thinking skills using historical inquiry. The simulation sessions, conducted over Zoom, can be streamed directly into participating classrooms across the country to coincide with existing lessons being taught by their teachers. We began piloting these simulations in December and will begin offering a full slate of simulation programming in 2022. Other Educational Programming In addition to FPRI’s programming for students, FPRI began a series of adult education seminars at a local retirement community. Using the Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decision Series as a guide, FPRI developed a series of six seminars highlighting some of the most pressing geopolitical issues of the day, including “The Role of International Organizations in a Global Pandemic,” “Global Supply Chains and National Security,” “China and Africa,” “The Korean Peninsula,” “Persian Gulf Security, and “The European Union and Brexit.” FPRI is also working to adapt similar programs for additional adult audiences throughout the Philadelphia area.
During 2021, FPRI created new direct programming for high school students that takes advantage of our virtual environment. These programs built off the previous work of our Historical Literacy Program and included seminars on geopolitics using case study analysis and the development of student-run simulations addressing key foreign policy decisions in American History.
EDUCATION
Developing The Next Generation of Foreign Policy Analysts
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My research and subsequent publication in this field has led me to consider service opportunities through USAID to join directly after graduation. I am interested in how partnerships between American and Chinese infrastructure initiatives could be made to better meet African countries’ needs and how these systems can be implemented sustainably to combat climate Workingchange.
with President Flynn, Ambassador Ray, Ambassador Basora, and Professor deLisle has led me to consider a career in the Foreign Service. I would eventually like to join the State Department as a Foreign Service Officer, with an eye toward a position in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs. What skills did you gain during your time as an FPRI intern? I have gained extensive research compilation, centralization, and analysis skills. I have also improved my organizational capacity and communication abilities. Through FPRI, I have learned about the research process, grant writing process, and meeting organization/agenda creation processes.
What projects did you work on during your internship with FPRI? Diversity in National Security Project with Rollie; Congo Rainforest, Climate Change, & Infectious Disease Article; Various Africa Program Projects (think tank partner identification, grant writing, scholar research, meeting organization, agenda organization, program coordination, etc) with Ambassador Ray and Ambassador Basora; Asia Program article edits and literature sourcing for Jacques deLisle
This year, FPRI hosted twenty interns from sixteen different universities around the world. As part of our Summer Intern Program, we developed and ran a weekly seminar series for our interns that highlighted key geopolitical issues and featured a career/job search training session (the “Career Coaching Bootcamp”) led by FPRI President Rollie Flynn. Thanks to the generosity of two FPRI donors, we also established a paid intern scholarship program for minority interns to foster career pipelines for communities that have been traditionally underrepresented in international affairs and national security.
HANNAH BASES
How has your experience as an intern with FPRI helped you in your long term career goals? The duality of my research assignments has allowed me to hone in on U.S.-China relations and competitionin Africa. I’ve been able to explore the effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Africa, including positive economic changes generated from new infrastructure, but also the negative effects the BRI (and other development initiatives) have had on Africa’s climate.
I had a lovely experience as an intern with FPRI and this experience has helped solidify that I am very interesting in going into working for a think tank or some sort of research position later in life. What skills did you gain during your time as an FPRI intern?
Interview techniques, efficient and effective research compiling, public speaking.
CASSIDY CHEONG
What projects did you work on during your internship with FPRI? Early stage research for versions projects of Professor Tierney. How has your experience as an intern with FPRI helped you in your long term career goals?
JACKSON MARIANI
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What projects did you work on during your internship with FPRI? I helped create visualizations of proposed spending plans to be presented to board members. How has your experience as an intern with FPRI helped you in your long term career goals?
I enjoyed learning about a wide range of global topics during the weekly Summer Intern Seminar Series. These seminars allowed me to learn about the wide range of jobs and positions available to those interested in international relations. What skills did you gain during your time as an FPRI intern?
Some skills which I developed during my FPRI internship include data visualization and academic research.
What projects did you work on during your internship with FPRI?
I really appreciated the one-on-one time and feedback I recieved from Dr. Krasna, and I feel this differentiated this internship from others I have done.
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What skills did you gain during your time as an FPRI intern?
What skills did you gain during your time as an FPRI intern?
The Africa Program, female genital mutilation, Belt and Road Initiative and women’s role in development. How has your experience as an intern with FPRI helped you in your long term career goals? It’s helped me realised what a career in research would entail and the amount of skill and workload required.
Admin, communication, organisation, task management, and writing skills
PHEBE WhatDUNCANWILSONRANDALLprojectsdidyouwork on during your internship with FPRI?
Long-form piece on Arab normalization with Syria, and a shorter piece on Israel-Turkey relations, with Dr. Joshua Krasna. How has your experience as an intern with FPRI helped you in your long term career goals?
I have learned a great deal from Dr. Krasna on writing both long- and short-form pieces on international relations. These are skills that will be of great benefit as I continue in my career doing research and writing, and embark on a masters program this upcoming fall.
I learned many writing skills, including how to best present complex arguments, how to cut down writing to its essence, and how to reach out to experts for insight.
How has your experience as an intern with FPRI helped you in your long term career goals?
It has helped me gain experience in the area that I have graduated in. What skills did you gain during your time as an FPRI intern?
This internship experience has been invaluable to me and has been a great enhancement of my abilities in the field of academic research, for which I am very grateful.
Secondly, this experience will allow me to gain relevant industry experience, which will give me a better advantage when I continue to look for opportunities in the future.
What projects did you work on during your internship with FPRI? Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations How has your experience as an intern with FPRI helped you in your long term career goals?
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It has provided me with a better research skill set and it helped me create a network with people from different fields.
DANIELA DIAMANTINO
The internship experience at FPRI gave me a better understanding of how think tanks operate and gave me a clearer plan and perception of my career development.
I participated in the National Security Program, supporting Mr. Bob Murray’s related research work on topics including BIS’s m-CBDC Bridge project, e-CNY, Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN), Smart Cities, and Digital Infrastructure etc.
ZHEZHENG ZHANG
During this time, I was able to improve my quantitative analysis skills, my ability to search and summarize relevant publications, as well as my ability to track and analyze news from different information channels. Since I was involved in topics related to blockchain and other cutting-edge areas of fintech research, this also deepened my understanding of the latest developments in current fintech to some extent.
What skills did you gain during your time as an FPRI intern?
What projects did you work on during your internship with FPRI?
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Robert L. Freedman, Chair Devon Cross, Vice Chair Hon. Dov S. Zakheim, Vice Chair Marshall W. Pagon, Treasurer James H. Averill J. Michael Barron Hon. Adrian A. Basora Richard L. Berkman Edward T. Bishop Gwen Borowsky Ruth S. Bramson Robert E. JohnSusanJamesRobertJosephPeterGerardWinstonAhmedLawrenceCarrCeislerCharaiJ.ChurchillCuddyDachowskiM.FieldA.FoxGatelyH.GoldbergR.Haines Hon. John Hillen James T. Hitch, III Donald R. Kardon Marina Kats Eileen Kennedy Laura DavidAlanMurrayLaRosaS.LevinH.LuxenbergMarshallLt.Gen. (Ret.) James Meyer Ronald J. Naples Michael Novakovic Edward W. O'Connor James M. Papada, III Stephen S. Phillips John W. Piasecki Hon. Charles A. Ray Eileen Rosenau Adele K. Schaeffer Hillard R. Torgerson Lee Woolley FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 50 BOARD OF TRUSTEES TRUSTEE EMERITI John H. Ball William L. Conrad Charles B. Grace Jack O. Greenberg Jeffrey B. Kohler David C.M. Lucterhand I. Wistar Morris, III Robert O'Donnell J.G. LionelRubensteinSavadove BOARD OF ADVISORS Walter A. McDougall Chair Paul DavidCharlesThomasMichaelBrackenS.DoranV.DraudeJ.Dunlap,Jr.Eisenhower Adam Garfinkle Paul H. Herbert Frank G. Hoffman Robert D. Kaplan Hon. John F. Lehman John H. Maurer Robert C. McFarlane John A. MarisaNimrodNaglNovikPorges Kori Hon.SchakeShirin Tahir-Kheli Vladimir Tismaneanu Hon. Robert B. Zoellick
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Robert L. Freedman is a retired partner at the law firm of Dechert LLP. For forty years he has been the principal drafter of legislation modernizing Pennsylvania’s probate and trust law statutes in his role as a member of the Advisory Committee on Decedents’ Estates of the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission.
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DEVON MARSHALLCROSSPAGON
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Dov S. Zakheim is Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Senior Fellow at the CNA Corporation, a federally funded think tank. Previously he was Senior Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton where he led the Firm’s support of U.S. Combatant Commanders world wide.
Mark is Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Pegasus Companies, a family of closelyheld companies active in solar & renewable energy and carbon offset projects, media and telecommunications, private equity, and investments.
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Devon Cross is the Director of The Policy Forum on International Security Affairs. Originally established in London, The Policy Forum conducted a series of off-the-record press roundtables featuring senior government officials and outside experts on U.S. defense and foreign policy issues.
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FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 54 FINANCIAL SUMMARY The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) currently operates on a budget of approximately $2.3 million dollars. The charts below show the percentages of how FPRI is supported and how FPRI spends its funds. Support 2021 % $ Board Giving 23% $667,600 Grants Contributions& 66% $1,962,300 Memberships & Partnerships 4% $109,800 Royalties & Other Revenue 7% $194,900 Total 100% $2,934,600 Expenditures 2021 % $ Publications & Research 70% $1,638,100 ProgramsEducational 11% $246,500 Administration 11% $254,900 Development & Outreach 8% $187,400 Total 100% $2,326,900 SUPPORT EXPENDITURES20212021
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