The Obama administration and Western governments may embrace democracy for Libya, but rhetoric is not enough. Obama must make a fundamental choice: Which is more important, democracy in the process of reconstituting a new government or democracy as the result?

Multilateralism is not always the right way in crafting foreign policy.

The story of Afghanistan in the 1990s is a story of the limits of diplomacy for its own sake, and diplomacy for its own sake is a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's foreign policy; will this administration repeat the mistakes of the past?

Four AEI scholars assess the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran.

Is the Iranian regime responsible for Iranian terrorism?

With threats multiplying, a culture of job security over performance in the intelligence community will neither protect nor promote the serious thinking needed in the United States.

The absence of a clear U.S. strategy to deter a nuclear Iran will give Tehran a free hand in the region to pursue conventional aggression and, what is worse, a nuclear attack.