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December 14, 2006
FPRI is pleased to announce the formation of the Robert Strausz-Hupé Society in memory of its founder, Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé (Mar. 25, 1903 - Feb. 24, 2002).
Membership in the Society is open to all who inform us that they have added a provision for FPRI in their wills, and we are pleased to recognize these charter members of the Society: W. W. Keen Butcher, Jack Gilray Christy, Robert L. Freedman, Charles B. Grace, Jr., Bruce H. Hooper, Jerome Kaplan, Rocco Martino, I. Wistar Morris III, Elaine Piccolomini, and John M. Templeton, Jr.
Each year the members of the Society will be convened for lunch or dinner and a private briefing by the Institute’s President, Dr. Harvey Sicherman. In addition, members receive a certificate evidencing their membership in the Society.
For further information on joining this society, please contact Alan Luxenberg, 215 732 3774 x105 or al@fpri.org. Year-end contributions to support the ongoing work of FPRI are also welcome.
November 27, 2006
On Monday, December 4, Vice Admiral (Ret.) Lowell (Jake) E. Jacoby will give an FPRI luncheon address on “Five Years After 9/11: What Needs To Be Done?”
A former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Admiral Jacoby is Executive Vice President for Strategic Intelligence Opportunities at CACI. He possesses 37 years of experience in the military and intelligence fields. His leadership in defense intelligence transformation and his key role in national intelligence reform were recognized by the award of his third Defense Distinguished Service Medal and the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal.
Note: This luncheon address is the public portion of a 2-day private symposium on counterterrorism and homeland security sponsored by FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Homeland Security. The Center's work is supported by grants from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and the Department of Education.
November 20, 2006
Corresponding to the Pope’s visit to Turkey on Nov. 28 – Dec. 1, FPRI associate scholar Gerald Robbins will participate in a symposium on Turkish Islam at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC on Weds., Nov. 29. For details, see “Turkish Islam: Nationalism Religious Freedom and Europe”
November 15, 2006
FPRI was pleased to host today an invitation-only luncheon for partners and senior fellows with U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Ross Wilson. Ambassador Wilson discussed current developments in Turkey, Turkey-EU relations, and U.S.-Turkey relations.
November 14, 2006
The Nov. 14, 2006 Los Angeles Times includes “Memo to Rumsfeld’s successor: Advice from a former Pentagon insider for the incoming Defense secretary, who inherits two tough wars and low morale,” by FPRI Trustee Dov S. Zakheim, former undersecretary of Defense (comptroller) and chief financial officer from 2001-04.
November 10, 2006
FPRI is pleased to announce the appointment of Garrett Jones as a senior fellow. Mr.Jones is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Army War College. He served as a case officer with the CIA in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. He retired in 1997 and now lives in thenorthwestern United States. Mr. Jones contributes FPRI e-Notes on intelligence matters.
November 9, 2006
FPRI Senior Fellow Ed Turzanski discussed terrorism and particularly the education of terrorists on the “Preston and Steve Show,” WMMR 93.3 (Philadelphia's rock station), tailoring his remarks for a younger audience and referring them to www.fpri.org.
November 8, 2006
On May 9, 2007 FPRI will co-host an invitation-only conference on Maritime Strategy and Threats to US Security with the Naval War College, the Union League ofPhiladelphia, and the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce. The conference will be sponsored by the Chief of Naval Operations. If you are interested in receiving an invitation, please send an email with complete contact information and institutional affiliation to Alan Luxenberg at: lux@fpri.org
October 20, 2006
This weekend FPRI is sponsoring a History Institute for Teachers on Understanding China. We have accepted 50 teachers from 26 states for participation in the weekend, which will be hosted by Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The entire weekend will be webcast, and we have received registrations from China, Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand, and Brunei, and throughout the United States. For those who miss the webcast, video files of all the lectures will be posted on our website; a report will be issued some time later.
The History Institute program is chaired by David Eisenhower and Walter McDougall and is supported by a grant from the Annenberg Foundation. Upcoming weekends will cover military history, economics in world history, the history of innovation, and a host of other vital topics in education. Your support is welcome!
October 5, 2006
In early September, with the completion of the Smith Richardson-funded project on postconflict stabilization and reconstruction, FPRI published e-Notes by FPRI senior fellows Andrew Garfield and Frank G. Hoffman, respectively, drawn from the executive summary of their larger monograph-length reports, which werereleased subsequently.
On September 19, at a briefing held in Washington, DC, we featured presentations by Garfield and Hoffman and released the full monographs. Later that evening, both monographs were posted in full on our website. They have already received over 3000 hits since being web posted that night, separate from the hits on the e-Notes.
The 9/19 briefing was attended by 45 people drawn from government, military, media, and academia and was webcast live; it is posted as a video file on our website.
Immediately following the briefing, the senior advisor to the Dept. of Defense/Dept. of State Joint Task Force on Iraq/Afghanistan Transition requested Garfield to give a 90-minute briefing to the entire staff of the task force. She commented at our briefing that she has had to read many “lessons learned” reports but these two were among the best.
Frank Hoffman was quoted in the New York Times in a story by Michael Gordon on the new emerging US Counterinsurgency/Stability operations doctrine, and was quoted in the Washington Post in a story by Tom Ricks on U.S. military strategy in Iraq. The report by Garfield was also cited in The Times of London on September 24. The Marine Corps Command and Staff College is extending an invitation to Garfield to deliver a lecture there, while the British Defence Academy has invited Hoffman to speak in January 2007.
Copies of the two reports were also given to the OSD/State Department Team (led by former FPRI Trustee) John Hillen, Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs. On Sept. 28/29, Hoffman aided Hillen in holding a conference oncounterinsurgency.
October 1, 2006
CNN.com and Education Week featured articles on how 9/11 should be taught in the classroom; both articles featured the resources drawn from our History Institute for Teachers. For the CNN article, see: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/08/911.teachers/ .
August 15, 2006
In view of recent attention on Afghanistan, we provide a short excerpt from a December 1998 FPRI lecture by Adam Garfinkle, who served as a senior fellow at FPRI forsome twenty years and is now editor of The American Interest magazine. We had asked Dr. Garfinkle to give a talk on crises looming over the horizon.
I’d like to conclude with a brief sketch of what might be the most dangerous and least well appreciated situation of all for the coming year. It has to do with a relatively small group of just a few thousandyoung seminary students.
Within a roughly 1700-mile radius of Kabul lives 25 percent of the earth’s population. Yet this region—which may be the most geopolitically unstable region of the world—doesn’t even have a name—call it East-central southwest Asia. Do you realize that in this country or in Europe you cannot readily get a map of Afghanistan with all of its neighbors shown—you see maps of Southwest Asia with Afghanistan on the eastern fringe, and maps of South Asia with Afghanistan on the western fringe, maps of the former USSR with Afghanistan on the southern fringe, maps of the greater Middle East with part of Afghanistan maybe in the upper right-hand corner. Our American cognitive maps never look at Afghanistan as the center of anything, and hence we have a hard time even imagining it as the center of a geopolitical situation. But we need to.
August 1, 2006
FPRI is pleased to congratulate Jacques deLisle, an FPRI Senior Fellow and Director of FPRI's Asia Program, on being named the Stephen Cozen Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.
June 1, 2006
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has appointed FPRI alumnus Shirin Tahir-Kheli as Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State on UN Reform. In collaboration withthe Assistant Secretary for International Organizations, Dr. Tahir-Kheli will report directly to the Secretary of State. She will engage the UN Secretary General and Secretariat on UN reform efforts, including the High Level Panel Report and the Report of the Secretary General on Reform.
Also, the president of Romania announced the establishment of a presidentialcommission to analyze the communist dictatorship in Romania. It will be led by FPRI alumnus Vladimir Tismaneanu. Dr. Tismaneanu is currently a professor of political Science at the University of Maryland, where he directs the Center for the Study of Postcommunist Societies. His books include Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (2003) and Fantasies of Salvation: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (1992). He is a member of the FPRI Steering Group on Democratic Transitions, a project directed by Ambassador Adrian Basora.
March 17, 2006
 | China Under Hu Jintao: Opportunities, Dangers, and Dilemmas, edited by Tun-jen Cheng, Jacques deLisle, and Deborah Brown. Jacques deLisle is Director of FPRI’s Asia Program and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. The volume includes his essay “China and the WTO: Evolving Agendas of Economic Openness, Domestic Reform, and International Status, and Challenges of the Post-Accession Era.” Deborah Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Seton Hall University and an Associate Scholar of FPRI. The book offers a guide to the issues facing China’s leadership, the likely approaches the regime might take, and the prospects for success andfailure. |
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 | Comparative Think Tanks, Politics, and Public Policy, by James McGann, with Erik Johnson. Dr. McGann is FPRI Senior Fellow and director of our project on Think Tanks and Civil Societies. McGann and Johnson use case studies of 20 countries across 5 regions of the world to explore the world of think tanks. |
 | Dilemmas of Democracy and Dictatorship: Place, Time and Ideology in Global Perspective, by Michael Radu, co-chair of FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security. This collection of essays covers political violence in the Balkans, Turkey, Subsaharan Africa, Latin America, and Western and Eastern Europe. |
February 6, 2006
FPRI’s 1955-2005 50th anniversary video (available in DVD upon request) won an Award of Excellence in the recent Communicator Awards competition, an international competition that recognizes outstanding video work. Over 3,000 entries were submitted in 2005.FPRI’s video won an award in the highest award class in the competition. The video was produced by Seven Three Media (www.seventhreemedia.com) and benefited from substantial participation in all aspects of the production by FPRI Trustee Susan Goldberg. It includes an original film score by composer David Ludwig.
You can watch The FPRI Story video
February 1, 2006
On February 28, 2006 FPRI Senior Fellow James McGann will be the keynote speaker at a US State Department-sponsored program for foreign journalists called Washington 101: An Introduction for Journalists Covering the Capital. The State Department’s Foreign Press Center has held programs at the Supreme Court, Congress, Department of Defense. These sessions were attended by an average of 55 journalists at each program.
Following his presentation, Dr. McGann will participate in a panel discussion on the role of think tanks in the formulation of foreignpolicy. This session will include two scholars from such think tanks as The Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the Center for American Progress.
Separately, on Thursday, March 30, 2006 Dr. McGann will address members of the Policy Research Division of the Canadian Foreign Ministry. The presentation will focus on think tanks as key organizations in the development of civil societies around the globe. In September, the State Department is sending McGann to Prague to lecture on Think Tanks and Civil Society.
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