AEI's Henry Wendt Scholar Nicholas Eberstadt wins the prestigious Bradley Prize

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

U.S. foreign aid needs a new business model that fits the realities of today's global economic picture.

The author examines climate data, income, and economic indicators to determine if foreign aid produces desired results.

Included is American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt's latest piece entitled North Korea's Six-Party Trap.

In contemporary political debate, there is no surer way to discredit and delegitimize a policy than to establish that it injures women and children.

Kim Jong Il was nothing less than an economic catastrophe for North Korea. His political ascent, in fact, tracks almost precisely with that ill-fated nation's shift to economic stagnation and then its frightening free-fall into abject mass misery.

Despite a decade and a half of charitable assistance, North Korea remains on the verge of another eruption of mass hunger. So is effective international humanitarian aid to the DPRK conceivable?