One may not like the law, like the Muslim Brotherhood, like Egypt, or like foreign aid, but the law is the law.

This report examines the policies, statements and makeup of the recently elected Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party in Pakistan in order to determine its likely future direction and to gauge the impact of its policies on Pakistan, the region, and its relations with the U.S.

Resource nationalism and popular gasoline subsidies are limiting Latin America's biggest energy companies from evolving into more efficient, competitive, and profitable enterprises. Brazil's Petrobras, Mexico's Pemex, and Venezuela's PDVSA are prime examples of energy giants that are being consumed by mismanagement, corruption, and political agendas.

Please join AEI for a briefing on the TPP and the current trade agenda from 12:00 – 1:15 on Tuesday, July 30th in 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building.

The ongoing standoff in the waters around the Diaoyutai Islands (in Japanese, Senkaku) threatens Taiwan's security, though not primarily for the obvious reason.

In the two years since taking power as president of Peru, Ollanta Humala has been struggling to please the poor and indigenous majority that elected him and to placate the economic elite and foreign investors who are indispensable to sustaining robust growth. At this point, Humala appears to be walking a fine line, headed in the right direction.

The 2010 discovery of what may potentially be 3,450 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 1.7 billion barrels of oil in the Eastern Mediterrranean's Levant Basin brings that region's security to the forefront. The United States would be wise to bolster its force posture in the region by establishing new cooperative security sites and by helping develop a regional defense partnership.

Michael Auslin testified before the House Armed Services Committee on July 24, 2013.

Japan's resource security concerns inform its foreign policy in important ways and provide new opportunities for increased US-Japanese cooperation. In addressing rare earth element and natural gas supply-chain vulnerabilities, Japan can develop new security relationships throughout Asia while strengthening existing ones.