PARLIAMENT WITHOUT POLITICS: THE EFFORT TO CONSOLIDATE AUTHORITARIAN RULE. By Ann M. Lesch FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

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1 FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE PARLIAMENT WITHOUT POLITICS: THE EFFORT TO CONSOLIDATE AUTHORITARIAN RULE By Ann M. Lesch February 2016

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29 AN INNOVATIVE INCUBATOR OF IDEAS SINCE 1955 MISSION Founded in 1955 by Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupe, FPRI is a 501(c)(3) non-partisan, non-profit organization devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests. In the tradition of Strausz-Hupe, FPRI illuminates foreign policy challenges facing the United States through the lens of history, geography and culture. WHO WE ARE The 100-plus affiliated scholars of FPRI include a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a former president of Swarthmore College, a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, and a former Ambassador and senior staff member of the National Security Council. We count among our trustees a former Undersecretary of Defense, a former Secretary of the Navy, a former Assistant Secretary of State, a foundation president, and numerous active or retired corporate CEOs, lawyers, and civic leaders. WHAT WE DO We conduct research on pressing issues from the rise of China to the decline of Europe, from the transformation of the Middle East to the emergence of cyberwar and long-term questions, such as the role of religion in international politics, the nature of Western identity, and the management of national security in an era of fiscal austerity. We publish a quarterly journal, Orbis; a weekly electronic bulletin, E-Notes; and a blog, Geopoliticus -- all of which draw on the research findings of our scholars, our conferences, and our seminars. We educate the public and teach the teachers through our Wachman Center for Civic and International Literacy and Butcher History Institute. We train interns from colleges and high schools in the skills of policy analysis and historical scholarship. FPRI AT A GLANCE Program on National Security, chaired by Hon. John F. Lehman and directed by Michael Noonan Program on the Middle East, directed by Tally Helfont Center for the Study of America and the West, chaired by Walter A. McDougall; directed by Ronald Granieri Asia Program, directed by Jacques delisle Eurasia Program, co-directed by Hon. Adrian Basora and John R. Haines; managed by Maia Otarashvili Center for the Study of Terrorism, chaired by Edward Turzanski and Lawrence Husick Marvin Wachman Center for Civic and International Literacy, directed by Alan H. Luxenberg Madeleine and W. W. Keen Butcher History Institute for Teachers, chaired by David Eisenhower and Walter A. McDougall

30 MEASURING OUR IMPACT i FPRI s scholars are interviewed and cited by local, national, or international news media. FPRI s participating teachers represent over 700 public, private, and parochial schools from 46 states. FPRI E-Notes and Orbis essays are regularly reprinted in the nation s universities and war colleges. FPRI scholars publish books with the most prestigious university presses Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Chicago and trade publishers Harpers, Random House. FPRI draws response from soldiers on the battlefield, teachers in the classroom, and key government officials. FPRI Facebook has over 125,000 fans all over the world. (India leads the US in the number of FPRI Facebook fans; Cairo leads Philadelphia.) HOW YOU CAN HELP Become a dues-paying member or partner of FPRI (the higher the level, the greater the benefits). Designate a Lecture or Series of Lectures in Honor or Memory of a person or institution. Endow an FPRI Center or Chair. To learn more or to see what we re currently working on, follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Please contact Eli Gilman, egilman@fpri.org, x103 if you would like more information. i See The Impact of the Foreign Policy Research Institute: Or, Can a Small Organization in Philadelphia Change the Course of History?, by Alan Luxenberg, BackChannel, November FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 1528 Walnut Street, Suite 610 Philadelphia, PA Tel Fax fpri@fpri.org Website:

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