FPRI 50th Anniversary
FPRI: 50 Years of Ideas in Service to Our Nation

Our Community

The Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education (established 1990), fosters civic and international literacy in the community and the classroom through some 50 lectures, seminars, and impromptu briefings per year, plus special programs for teachers and students.
Inter-University Study Groups tap the immense intellectual resources of the 80-plus institutions of higher learning in the area.
The Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security (established 2003) provides security analysis for the Commonwealth and the Nation, including a "Situation Report on the War on Terrorism," held every 2 months (free and open to the public).

Orbis, a quarterly journal of world affairs (1957), taps the best scholarship to make recommendations for U.S. foreign policy.
The History Institute for Teachers (1996) provides training to teachers from over 30 states; now chaired by David Eisenhower and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall.
Sponsorship of Defense Task Force (1996-2002), co-chaired by John Lehman and Harvey Sicherman, on American vulnerabilities,
Publication (HarperCollins, 2004) of Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828, by Walter McDougall, FPRI Senior Fellow, to critical acclaim by the New York Times and Washington Post.

Annual conferences (1980-89) with the Institute for the Study of the USA and Canada, USSR Academy of Sciences, on “Arms Control and U.S.-Soviet Relations.”
A path-breaking conference (1987) on “Will the Communist Regimes Survive?” featuring talks by 36 dissidents or exiles from 12 Communist countries, and leading to the FPRI Project on Transitions to Freedom.
Agora (1988-1994), a Romanian-language journal of culture and politics disseminated within Romania during and after Nicolae Ceaucescu’s final years; chaired by French playwright Eugene Ionescu.
Publication of E-Notes, now circulated by email each week to some 25,000 key people in 85 countries.

And this is just a taste!