FPRI Monographs and Essay Collections

Periodically, FPRI publishes web-based monographs and essay collections, drawing on the FPRI research and conference programs.


Foreign Fighters, Sovereignty, and Counter-Terrorism: Selected Essays

Edited by Michael Noonan, Managing Director of FPRI’s Program on National Security, this monograph is a collection of essays from “The Foreign Fighter Progblem,” a program conference held July 14–15, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s U.S. Cell [1988–95]: the Ideological Foundations of Its Propaganda Strategy

Tally Helfont, of FPRI´s Program on the Middle East, analyzes the content of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad U.S. cell´s propaganda as a means to explain its ideological foundations and the way in which it was used to further the PIJ´s goals of terror fundraising in the United States.

Reforming the Afghan National Police

The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) completed a study on how best to reform the Afghan National Police and presented their findings in a report released at a September 17, 2009 briefing held at the Reserve Officrs Association in Washington, D.C.

The Hu-Obama Summit and U.S.-China Relations

Edited by Jacques deLisle, director of FPRI’s Asia Program, this November 2009 collection includes eight essays on topics such as the Taiwan Strait, North Korea, and U.S.-China cooperation.

The Sunni Divide: Understanding Politics and Terrorism in the Arab Middle East

Samuel Helfont, of FPRI’s Program on the Middle East discusses the distinctions between two extremist Islamist movements, Wahhabism and the Muslim Brotherhood.

What are We Fighting For? Western Civilization, American Identity, and U.S. Foreign Policy

This January 2009 monograph by James Kurth, FPRI Senior Fellow and Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, discusses the foundations of Western and specifically American civilization, the ideals which make them worth fighting for.

Abraham Lincoln: Leadership and Democratic Statesmanship in Wartime

Mackubin Thomas Owens, Professor of Strategy and Force Planning at the Naval War College and Editor of Orbis, writes of Lincoln’s record as a war president.

Latin America’s Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: History and Status

As Prof. Alberto Bolívar of the Lima, Peru-based Strategos Institute writes in this May 2006 monograph, the existence of radicalized mass movements in Latin America’s most populous countries remains a matter of some concern, particularly in this volatile region.

Radical Islam in the Maghreb - 2005

Carlos Echeverría Jesús is professor of international relations at Open University-UNED, Madrid. For additional background, see his earlier “Radical Islam in the Maghreb” (62K PDF), Orbis, Spring 2004.

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