Foreign Policy Research Institute

  • Given the significance of the recent (April 12) Hungarian elections, I put together a quick analysis for the Foreign Policy Research Institute of their ramifications for Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The piece went live today and can be accessed here. I will also be posting a second article—for the local papers—on this blog…

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  • Iran: What Comes Next?

    As the Persian Gulf war enters its second month, President Trump continues to frequently vacillate between threatening more “fire and brimstone” on the Iranians and proclaiming that the two sides are on the cusp of a major agreement to end the fighting. As of this writing (29 March), hostilities persist between the primary combatants in…

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  • The Foreign Policy Research Institute published this morning another of my analytic pieces on Central Europe, this time on the Czech Republic. If interested, the article can be found here. I had not planned to write another newspaper article for a few weeks but the Middle East war certainly deserves my attention. Consequently, I may…

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  • The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), the Philadelphia-based think tank for which I write periodically, yesterday published my latest analytic missive on political developments in the Czech Republic. For anyone interested, the article can be accessed here.

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  • As many of you are aware, periodically I write longer, analytic articles for the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), a Philadelphia-based think tank at which I’m a non-resident senior fellow. My latest piece for FPRI, on the security challenges faced by the Czech Republic in the lead-up to October 2025 parliamentary elections, was published this…

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  • For those interested in Central European political drama, I am including a link to a long article of mine that was published earlier today by the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), a Philadelphia-based think tank for which I’ve contributed analytic pieces for the past two years. In recognition of my work on Central Europe, FPRI…

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  • Czech Republic Politics

    While some of you probably will not find this of interest, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a Philadelphia-based foreign policy think tank, has published another article of mine on the Czech Republic. The quick summary is that as parliamentary elections await in the second half of 2025 the country runs the risk of joining Hungary…

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