FPRI Featured Bulletin: E-Notes August 2008

Russia Resurgent: An Initial Look at Russian Military Performance In Georgia

By Felix K. Chang

While news reports from the frontlines remain preliminary and incomplete, the scale and speed of Russia’s military operations in Georgia between August 8 and 12 do shed some light on Russian military capabilities and operational readiness and raise new questions regarding the events leading to the conflict.

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FPRI Featured Bulletin: FootNotes August 2008

The Beijing Olympics Narrative

Monroe Price

The Beijing extravaganza is the most elaborate theatrical production of this century and already among the most dramatic Olympic Games ever. The question is, what’s the plot and who is involved in establishing and modifying it?

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FPRI Featured Bulletin: FootNotes August 2008

Teaching About Slavery

By Michael Johnson

Slavery lasted for 250 years just in the territory of the United States, and for half a millennium in the Atlantic world. Teaching about it is therefore a huge assignment. I will begin with a wide-angle, panoramic lens, and then develop five important contexts that may be familiar to us but not to our students, and then look at one specific slave experience, that of Frederick Douglass.

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FPRI Featured Bulletin: E-Notes August 2008

The History and Future of Suicide Terrorism

By Michael Horowitz

Suicide terrorism, as a tactic, it has infiltrated our national consciousness. However, we need to stop viewing suicide terrorism as something exotic and incomprehensible, which only leads to confusion. We can best make sense of it if we think of it as a military innovation.

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Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program

The Global "Go-To Think Tanks”: The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World

By James G. McGann

Gone are the days when a think tank could operate with the motto “research it, write it and they will find it”. Today, think tanks must be lean, mean, policy machines. The report that follows summarizes the findings of a pilot project to identify some of the leading think tanks in the world, and provides lists of what might be called the “go to think tanks” in every region.

• View The Global “Go-To Think Tanks”: The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World, 2007 (24 pages, 265K )
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From the archives

• Spotlight on Georgia: The Political Economy of Georgia’s Rose Revolution, Vladimer Papava, in Orbis, Fall 2006 (11 pages, 93K )
• Spotlight on Zimbabwe: Comrade Mugabe's 'state of Disaster', Michael Radu, 5/2002
• Spotlight on Iran: Iran: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Tradition of Persian Statecraft, Adda B. Bozeman, in Orbis, Summer 1979 (1.3MB )
• Spotlight on Iran: War and the Clash of Ideas, Adda B. Bozeman, in Orbis, Spring 1976 (2.7MB )