AEI Scholars on Foreign and Defense Policy
| Ali Alfoneh | Iran; Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps; Civil-military relations in Iran, the Middle East, and North Africa |
| Leon Aron | Russian domestic politics; Russian foreign policy; U.S.–Russian relations; Post-Soviet evolution: social, cultural, and economic aspects |
| Michael Auslin | Japan; Asian security; U.S.–East Asian relations; U.S.–Japanese relations; Asia-Pacific multilateral organizations; Asian maritime security |
| Roger Bate | Counterfeit pharmaceuticals; performance of aid agencies and NGOs in Africa; health policy and endemic diseases (HIV/AIDS and malaria) in developing countries |
| John R. Bolton | North Korea; Iran; Middle East and Israel; Taiwan and China; nuclear proliferation; U.S. foreign policy; international organizations and treaties including the UN and ICC; international law |
| Dan Blumenthal | Long-term strategic issues for the Asia Pacific region; China; Taiwan; East Asia; South Asia regional issues |
| Mauro de Lorenzo | Development aid; African domestic politics; African security issues; East and Central Africa (Rwanda, Congo, Burundi, Uganda); refugee and humanitarian policy; Chinese overseas investment in Africa |
| Thomas Donnelly | Defense issues related to Afghanistan and Pakistan; defense spending; director of AEI's Center for Defense Studies |
| Nicholas Eberstadt | Economic development policy; Asian demographic and health issues including HIV/AIDS; North and South Korea |
| Jon Entine | Nongovernmental organizations; sovereignty |
| Frederick W. Kagan | Defense and military strategy in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan; security developments in Pakistan; Russian and European military history; director of AEI's Critical Threats Project |
| Hassan Mneimneh | Jihadist organizations (al-Qaeda) |
| Roger F. Noriega | Latin America; the Caribbean |
| Richard Perle | Defense and national security issues in Europe; Russia; Eurasia; intelligence |
| Danielle Pletka | Middle East; Iran; U.S. foreign policy and regional issues |
| Michael Rubin | Arab democracy; Iran and the Middle East; Turkey; the Kurds; Iraq; Syria; diplomatic engagement with rogue states |
| Gary J. Schmitt | Strategic issues in China, Taiwan, and Europe; transatlantic relations; NATO; counterterrorism issues; national security and intelligence issues |
| Paul Wolfowitz | African development issues including public -private partnerships and entrepreneurship; Indonesia; U.S. foreign policy |
| John Yoo | International law |
Also contributing to AEI's Foreign and Defense Policy Studies
| Newt Gingrich |
| Philip I. Levy |
| John H. Makin |
| Tim Sullivan |


