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Home / FPRI Authors and Panelists / Jessica C. Liao Non-Resident Senior Fellow - Asia Program Jessica C. Liao is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the Asia Program, as well as an associate professor of Asian Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the US Army War College and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, Asia Pacific Program.

Home / FPRI Authors and Panelists / James Swartout James Swartout is the Vice President of Strategy at Ursa Major Technologies. Prior to joining Ursa Major, James served as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, leading the executive staff and advising on a broad range of issues.

Home / FPRI Authors and Panelists / Ayse Kaya Ayse Kaya is currently a Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. She was the recipient of a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Affairs Scholars and worked as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State (2023-Jan 2025). She is an Associate Editor at International Studies Quarterly and an Adjunct Professor at the Business Economics and Public Policy Department of the Wharton School.

Home / Articles / China’s Political Warfare: Challenges to Taiwan and the United States in Latin America Throughout Latin America, China is engaging in a unique form of political warfare—employing, per FPRI’s definition, “elements of national power including cyber, economic, financial, informational, paramilitary, and political statecraft tools short of declared war… to achieve political goals.” While building soft power through economic exchanges, Beijing has also advanced political goals in...

Russian information operations in Africa are a tool to expand Russia’s presence on the continent and to turn African countries into allies of Russia in its confrontation with the West. This article focuses on the ideological content of Russian information influence in African countries—specifically a set of narratives and ideas that Russia seeks to root in the information environment of African countries. Russian information operations in Africa are multidimensional, malleable, and opportunistic.

The information environment has become a key battleground of strategic competition. The war in Ukraine shows how Russia and China have effectively leveraged information operations as a tool of statecraft. Given how malign actors exploit the openness of the information environment to push and amplify narratives that undermine US strategic interests, it is imperative that the US leverage OSINT and AI to compete in the cognitive domain.

Taxation also proved to be a major issue. Here, paradoxically, the largest party in the outgoing government, the Homeland Union, campaigned on a platform very similar to much of the opposition: Already while in government they had attempted to implement tax rises for the self-employed and other groups, as well as businesses, only to be thwarted in these plans by their junior coalition partners. Hence, on the campaign trail, it was the two liberal parties against everyone else.

Home / Articles / Beyond the Revolution: Building a New Bangladesh Hasina’s ousting as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh on August 5, 2024, as the longest-serving Bangladeshi head of state and world’s longest-serving female over job quotas, has left the new interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus with a range of issues including resurgent Islamist parties, communal tensions, lawlessness, surging inflation, and inability to hold perpetrators of the revolution’s victims...

Ideology—an overarching narrative that explains what is wrong with the world, an ideal state for how the world ought to be, and a course of action for realizing that world—is a critical warfighting capability that helps adversaries explain and sustain their military actions over a prolonged period.

Home / FPRI Authors and Panelists / Rimon Tanvir Hossain Rimon Tanvir Hossain is a Research Assistant with the Middle East Institute’s Program on Strategic Technologies and Cybersecurity. He received his M.P.P. from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and his B.A. from UC Berkeley. He is a MPhil/PhD Candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an Assistant Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation.