Costa Rica

January 8, 2026 | Maria Riofrio, Max Lesser

Russia Recruits Young Migrant Women from Latin America to Build Iranian Drones

August 19, 2025 | Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi  |

Iran’s web of terror and propaganda: The case of Al Mustafa University

Last July, Israel’s ambassador to Argentina gave an interview to Latin America’s leading news platform, Infobae, where he named Edgardo Ruben (aka Suhail) Assad, Abdallah Cerrilla, and Abdul...

April 29, 2025 | Annie Fixler |

Shaping the Future of Cyber Diplomacy

Review for State Department Reauthorization

March 17, 2025 | Annie Fixler, Johanna Yang

USAID Cuts Demolish Cyber Assistance to U.S. Allies and Partners  

When U.S. partners aren’t secure, America isn’t secure.

July 27, 2023 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Annie Fixler

Building Partner Capabilities for Cyber Operations

December 16, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

FDD’s Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: The Year in Review

February 23, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Soleimani U

A new academic center in Caracas named after the Iranian mass murderer is the latest node in Tehran’s soft power network in Latin America

February 17, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer, Richard Goldberg, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Taiwan 194

Emulating the Palestinians to Advocate Internationally for Taiwan and to Counter China

June 29, 2021 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late June

June 14, 2021 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Samuel Hodgson, Austin Blair

Behind the Black Bloc

An Overview of Militant Anarchism and Anti-Fascism

September 30, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Philip Kowalski

‘Blue Homeland’ And The Irredentist Future Of Turkish Foreign Policy

Turkey and Greece, two NATO allies, nearly experienced a full-fledged military conflict in August. Two of their warships collided during a naval standoff over hydrocarbon exploration in the Eastern...

July 13, 2020 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

Re-Forge Strategic Alliances and Check China Abroad, Rebuild Economy at Home

The industrial heartlands of the U.S. and its European allies have become crucibles for the polarizing politics of neo-populism for a population left behind in the information age. Anxious and angry citizenry,...

May 22, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

COVID-19 in Latin America: Organized Crime Gains and States Weaken

COVID-19 cases in Latin America are surging as the region heads into the Southern Hemisphere winter. Across the region, the pandemic has created opportunities for organized crime to step into the void left...

February 25, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The Trump plan for Afghanistan

The U.S. presence provides a better return on investment than most people realize

August 7, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Why endless wars can’t be ended

There’s no chance America’s enemies will leave us in peace.

February 27, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

America as sheriff, rather than cop

In Syria, Trump is now steering between isolationism and interventionism.

October 3, 2018 | Mathew Ha, David Maxwell

Kim Jong Un’s ‘All-Purpose Sword’

North Korean Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare

April 2, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

How the U.S. Put Latin America Up for Grabs

TAMARINDO, COSTA RICA – I’m not about to pretend that spending a few days in this rather funky little surfing village on the Pacific has given me great insights into Latin America&rsq...

September 22, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Origins of the Palestinian Unilateral Declaration of Independence

As of early September 2011, the Palestinian Authority (PA), under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, was set to bypass negotiations with Israel and attempt to declare statehood at the United Nation...

June 24, 2011 |

Fatah, Hamas, and the Statehood Gambit

On May 3,  Hamas and Fatah, the two largest and most influential Palestinian factions, created a unity government. Following a brutal civil war in 2007 that left Hamas in control of the Gaza...