Welcome back to the Ties that Bind. This week, we go back North to the shores of the Baltic Sea for a perspective from Latvia.

In 2021, open-source intelligence efforts revealed a surprising discovery using commercial satellite imagery: China was ...

On October 20, 2025, a glitch at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in northern Virginia triggered more than 6.5 ...

Tanzania has long been a model of representative government and stability in East Africa. Recent elections have sparked ...

Emily is a wonderful addition to our growing team at FPRI. She brings expertise and excellence to the role and we have big ...

Assad’s regime at the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its rebel allies in December 2024, Syria remains in a ...

XT is a rising senior at Swarthmore College, double majoring in Political Science and Computer Science. Originally from ...

Join us for a reception and conversation with Ambassador Vladislav Kulminski, and FPRI President Aaron Stein as they discuss ...

The US government shut down on September 30, 2025, and the US Congress failed to extend the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act ...

Lt. Col. Jahara “FRANKY” Matisek is a US Air Force command pilot, nonresident research fellow at the US Naval War College and ...

Research Associate for the Canada Institute at the Wilson Center, Madison brings expertise from roles at the Stockholm ...

Africa Growth Initiative in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. He has over four decades of experience ...