Foreign and Defense Policy
AEI’s foreign and defense policy scholars are dedicated to the principle that American global leadership is vital to a peaceful, prosperous, and free world. Our research focuses on both today’s threats and tomorrow’s challenges and spans the world’s geopolitical flash points. Topics of study include national security and defense, global terrorism, transnational threats, and economic statecraft, across regions and countries such as the Middle East, China and East Asia, India, Europe, Latin America, and Russia.