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The latest from AEI scholars on foreign policy

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August 11, 2016

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Derek Scissors
Resident Scholar
Research areas: US-China economic relations, 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

Headlines and Highlights

Who will lead the United Nations
John Bolton, Wall Street Journal 
The race to succeed Ban Ki-moon as United Nations secretary-general is well under way.  With important American interests on the line, we should welcome a competent manager, rather than an ideologue.

The future of the chrysanthemum throne
Michael Auslin, Wall Street Journal
When Emperor Akihito on Monday announced indirectly his desire to abdicate, it marked the beginning of the end of Japan’s first modern imperial reign.

India’s misguided name games
Sadanand Dhume, Wall Street Journal
Confident countries don’t need to boost their pride by fiddling with city names.

Putin eats Obama’s lunch, and is ready to eat Clinton or Trump’s too
Marc A. Thiessen, AEIdeas
The Russian military intervention in Syria has been a rousing success for Russia, Iran and the Assad regime – and a devastating setback for the U.S. This is bad enough. But the sad part is, it will only get worse under the next president.

Brazil’s socialist party and left-wing allies tarred by new revelations 
Roger F. Noriega, AEIdeas
Brazil’s  crony-socialism model is the biggest casualty of the ongoing anti-corruption offensive.

How diplomatic shortsightedness a decade ago empowers Hezbollah today
Michael Rubin, AEIdeas
The question is not whether a new Israel-Hezbollah conflict will occur, but how many orders of magnitude greater the damage will be when it does.

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