Other FPRI Scholar Publications

From time to time, we post in this space articles by FPRI scholars that appear in scholarly journals, popular magazines, or newspapers.

The Business We’ve Chosen

FPRI Senior Fellow Michael P. Noonan, a U.S. Army Reserve captain, writes of his 14-month tour in northern Iraq in the November/December 2007 issue of The American Interest.

War Contractors: The rule of law — good for Blackwater and Iraqis

Andrew Garfield, writes in the San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 3, 2007)

Al-Qaeda: Venture Capitalists of Terror

An interview with Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security Fellow Lawrence Husick in IEEE Spectrum, Nov. 2007.

A Thousand and One Nights

Harvey Sicherman, President of FPRI, reviews Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East by Michael B. Oren in The Claremont Review of Books.

Coming to Order

Orbis editor James Kurth considers, “does history teach or tease U.S. statesmen looking to create a world order?” in the July - August 2007 issue (Vol. 2 No. 6), of The American Interest, entitled “Force, Order, Strategy.”

Adventures in State-Building: Bremer’s Iraq and Cromer’s Egypt

This essay by Harvey Sicherman, President of FPRI, was published in the Summer (May/June) 2007 issue, Vol. II No. 5, of The American Interest.

The U.S. Victory in Vietnam: Lost and Found

This essay by James Kurth, Editor of Orbis, was published in the Fall 2006 issue of The Intercollegiate Review.

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

As Prof. Alberto Bolívar of the Lima, Peru-based Strategos Institute writes in this 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.

Splitting Islam: A Shi’ite-Sunni strategy for surviving the War on Terror

This essay by James Kurth, Editor of Orbis, was the cover story for the September 26, 2006 issue of The American Conservative.

The Protestant Deformation

This essay by James Kurth, Editor of Orbis, appeared in the Winter 2006 issue of The American Interest.

Strengthening the Fainthearts

This essay by John Hillen, Director of FPRI’s Program on National Security appeared in the Summer 2004 issue of The National Interest. It is posted here with the permission of The National Interest, Inc. and is for personal and fair use only.

Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?

These reviews by Harvey Sicherman, President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, were published in the Summer 2004 issue of The National Interest. The piece is posted here with the permission of The National Interest, Inc. and is for personal and fair use only.

Victory Over Terrorism: Strategies for Donors

This article by Harvey Sicherman appeared in Philanthropy Magazine, November/December 2003.

Vichy Thought Police

This essay by Michael Radu also appeared in FrontPage Magazine on September 20, 2002.

The Revival of Geopolitics

This essay by FPRI President Harvey Sicherman appeared in the Intercollegiate Review, Spring 2002, and is reprinted here with permission of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (www.isi.org).

What Johnny Still Won’t Know About History

This essay by FPRI Senior Fellow Walter A. McDougall appeared in the July 1996 issue of Commentary magazine and is posted here with the permission of Commentary.

Whose History? Whose Standards?

This essay by FPRI Senior Fellow Walter A. McDougall appeared in the May 1995 issue of Commentary magazine and is posted here with the permission of Commentary.

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