Foreign Policy Research Institute
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| Abbreviation | FPRI |
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| Motto | Bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests |
| Formation | 1955 |
| Type | Public policy think tank |
| Headquarters | 1528 Walnut St, Ste 610 |
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Revenue (2013)
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$1,760,911 |
| Expenses (2013) | $1,659,019 |
| Website | www.fpri.org |
The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is an American think tank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By its own description it is "devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests."
The Institute conducts research on geopolitics, international relations, and international security in the various regions of the world as well as on ethnic conflict, U.S. national security, terrorism, and on think tanks themselves. It publishes a quarterly journal, Orbis, as well as a series of monographs and books. It has many publications that are released on a regular basis: E-Notes, FootNotes, Geopoliticus: The FPRI Blog, The Philadelphia Papers, and E-Books.
FPRI was founded by Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé. A native of Vienna, Strausz-Hupé immigrated to the United States in 1923 to work as an investment banker. Alarmed by the 1938 Anschluss, he began to lecture on the dangers posed by Nazi Germany, which in turn led to a teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania in 1940, where he also earned his masters and doctoral degrees.
Dissatisfied with the containment strategy of John Foster Dulles and the Eisenhower administration's foreign policy in general, Strausz-Hupé founded FPRI in 1955 with support from the University of Pennsylvania and the Smith Richardson Foundation. In 1957 publication commenced of the Institute's quarterly, Orbis. Among FPRI's notable early scholars were Hans Kohn, William Kintner, Henry Kissinger, James Schlesinger, and Lawrence Krause.
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