AEI Foreign Policy: Experts, highlights, and headlines

Foreign policy scholars

Danielle Pletka Senior Vice President, Foreign & Defense Policy Studies Research areas: Terrorism, Middle East, Iran, South Asia

 

Michael Auslin Resident Scholar & Director, Japan Studies Research areas: Japan, US-Japanese relations, Asian maritime security

 

Dan Blumenthal Resident Fellow Research areas: China, Taiwan, East Asia, US-China relations

 

Sadanand Dhume Resident Fellow Research areas: S. Asian security, Political economy, Business, Radical Islam in S. Asia, India & Pakistan

 

Frederick W. Kagan Christopher DeMuth Chair & Dir., Critical Threats Project Research areas: National security, US military, Afghanistan & Iraq

 

Michael Mazza Research Fellow Research areas: US Asia-Pacific defense policy, Cross-strait relations, Chinese military

 

Michael Rubin Resident Scholar Research areas: Iran, Syria, Middle East regional politics, Turkey, the Kurds, the Persian Gulf

 

Marc Thiessen Fellow Research areas:  Counterterrorism issues, American presidential leadership

 

John Yoo Visiting Scholar Research areas: International law, Constitutional law

 

Leon Aron Resident Scholar & Director, Russian Studies Research areas: Russia, US-Russian relations

 

J. Matthew McInnis Resident Fellow Research areas: Iranian strategy, Intelligence policy

 

John Bolton Senior Fellow Research areas: Foreign policy, International organizations

 

Nicholas Eberstadt Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy Research areas: Poverty, Demographics, Entitlements, North/South Korea

 

Roger F. Noriega Visiting Fellow Research areas: The Caribbean, Latin America, Canada

 

Derek Scissors Resident Scholar Research areas: US-China economic relations, Chinese investment, international finance (Asia)

 

Paul Wolfowitz Scholar Research areas: Public-private partnerships, Entrepreneurship, Development issues, Africa

 

Katherine Zimmerman Research Fellow & Sr. Analyst, Critical Threats Project Research areas: Jihadist organizations, terrorism

 

Dalibor Rohac Research Fellow Research areas: European Union, US-EU relations, European political and economic trends

Headlines and Highlights

Putinology
Leon Aron, The American Interest
Putin’s strategic direction may be traced by marking the evolution of domestic imperatives—economic, ideological, political—that have molded his behavior and will almost certainly continue to do so.

Russia and China fuel Asia’s other ‘Great Game’
Michael Auslin, Nikkei Asian Review
Relations between Russia and China, even over economic ties that should benefit both, will be tense at the best of times.

5 questions every presidential candidate should answer: US-Israel/Palestine relations edition
Danielle Pletka, AEIdeas
It will fall to the next president to repair ties with Israel and to address the lingering challenge of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

The secret to Kalam’s popularity
Sadanand Dhume, The Wall Street Journal
As India’s 11th president, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam arguably left a deeper mark on the public imagination than virtually any of his predecessors.

Congress should fact-check the Kurds
Michael Rubin, AEIdeas
If aid is given to the Kurds, a similar quantity should be supplied directly to the YPG. That is, of course, if the White House and Pentagon actually wish to defeat the Islamic State.

China responsible for cyberattack on United Airlines
Marc Thiessen, AEIdeas
Our failure to retaliate against Chinese attacks will send a signal to the world that America can be hacked and attacked with impunity.

Why Obama’s executive action on Iran does not violate the law
John Yoo, National Review Online
Critics of the Iran deal should save their strength when it comes to the Constitution.

Can Mexico’s president recover? 
Roger F. Noriega, Felipe Trigos, Real Clear World
Already besieged by  corruption scandals, security crises, and the slow but steady unraveling of his structural reforms, the escape of El Chapo may have been the coup de grace to the president’s ability to govern.

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