Princeton, NJ Entertainment Guide Announcement
Foreign Policy Research Institute Announces Establishment of Princeton Committee, Commences Princeton Briefings Series
(Princeton, NJ): The Foreign Policy Research Institute (www.FPRI.org), a prominent Philadelphia-based think tank, has announced its expansion to Princeton with a series of international affairs talks, tagged the Princeton Briefings, that began in January 2013. FPRI's Princeton Committee is directed by John R. Haines, a Princeton resident and FPRI Trustee, and advised by a committee of prominent scholars and international affairs experts.
Each Princeton Briefing focuses on a single topic, from cyber warfare to emerging Asia-Pacific maritime security challenges. An intimate, salon-like setting allows the presenter to test her or his views and thoughts in a lively, often rigorous, exchange with the audience, who together discuss and probe the evening's question in depth and detail. FPRI's Princeton Briefings are open to FPRI members, and by invitation to Princeton residents with an interest in international affairs. Members of the former Princeton chapter of the American Committees of Foreign Relations, now formally part of FPRI, are also welcomed.
FPRI was founded in 1955 by noted American diplomat and scholar, Robert Strausz-Hupé, on the premise that "a nation must think before it acts." Rigorously nonpartisan, FPRI is devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance US national interests, and to fitting events into the larger historical and cultural context of international politics. It conducts research into geopolitics, international relations and international security in the various regions of the world as well as on ethnic conflict, U.S. national security, and terrorism.
FPRI consistently ranks among the world's most influential think tanks. Its Board of Advisors is chaired by Walter A. McDougall, Ph.D., the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Pulitzer Prize winning author. In January 2012, FPRI was named a top 20 "Best Small Think Tanks Worldwide", the only U.S. think tank so named in this annual survey of over 1,950 scholars, donors, policy makers, and journalists ranking more than 6,500 think tanks worldwide.
FPRI has consistently sought out and promoted diverse opinions and critical thinking on emerging and long-term policy issues. The Philadelphia-based think tank's expansion will expose Princeton residents to thought leaders at the leading edge of shaping public policy, especially from the emerging generation of foreign policy leadership.
The Princeton Committee of the Foreign Policy Research Institute is headquartered on Palmer Square in downtown Princeton. It has scheduled three briefings through April, to be held at the Present Day Club at 72 Stockton Street in Princeton.
· Thursday, February 21, 6-8pm: Dominic Tierney, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, will discuss his recent book, How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War.
· Thursday, March 21, 6-8pm: Aaron L. Friedberg, Ph.D., Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and author of A Contest for Supremacy: China, America and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia will discuss "Coping with the Rise of China;"
· Thursday, April 11, 6-8pm: Vanessa Neumann, Ph.D., a Senior Fellow in both FPRI's Program on National Security and its Center for the Study of Terrorism, will discuss "Crime-Terror Pipelines: The Case of Iran and Latin America."
For more information or to register, contact 215-732-3774, ext 303 or events@fpri.org. For more information on FPRI's mission, research and outreach, and a list of its current and forthcoming presentations, visit the FPRI website at www.FPRI.org.
