Please join us for a lively discussion about Jack Goldsmith's new book, "Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11," hosted by AEI and the Federalist Society.

With 2011 winding down, AEI’s foreign policy experts take an only partly tongue in cheek look at the year that’s passed and the one ahead. Who’s in, who’s out? What’s up, what’s down?

How should al Qaeda terrorist suspects held in Western detention be brought to justice? In his new book, "Justice and the Enemy" (PublicAffairs, 2012), British author William Shawcross describes how the lessons of the past can direct us in confronting our enemies today.

With 2011 winding down, AEI’s foreign policy experts take an only partly tongue-in-cheek look at the year that’s passed and the one ahead. Who’s in, who’s out? What’s up, what’s down?

When people take to the streets in great numbers, authoritarian and dictatorial regimes can only survive if the police or military are willing to shoot.

The United States remains the ultimate target of nihilist extremists who distort religion as a justification for murdering innocent men and women. We can try to behave as if that were not the case, but that sort of self-delusion could put the lives of innocent U.S. citizens at risk.