Join the Federalist Society and AEI for a panel discussion of John Yoo and Julian Ku's new book, where Martin Flaherty of the Fordham University School of Law and Jeremy Rabkin of the George Mason University School of Law will join the authors in a discussion of their proposals and whether they are faithful to our Constitution, our history and our international law obligations.

Merely monitoring Iran's foray into Latin America is not enough. The United States must find its way toward adopting new forward-leaning policies that will frustrate Tehran’s plans to threaten U.S. security and interests close to home.

Several years ago, Farid Ghadry​--a Syrian exile activist--published a piece in the Middle East Quarterly looking at what political trends lay beneath the surface of Syria's Baathist dictatorship. He identified the discussions groups that arose during the short-lived "Damascus Spring" and hypothesized that they represented the proto-political parties which might develop.

Alas, if a story in The Guardian is correct, it appears the Obama administration really has no more moral grounding on Syria than the gadfly congressman.

Elections in Turkey come at a crucial time. In this election, the Turks will decide if the AKP will win again. If they do, Turkey could slip further in to autocracy.

John Podhoretz will deliver the November 2011 Bradley Lecture at AEI.

The great surprise is not that millions took to the streets in Egypt but rather that the United States had for so long predicated its regional security on Mubarak.

In The Sixth Crisis, Dana Allin and Steven Simon argue that Tehran's nuclear drive--and the possibility of a preemptive Israeli strike--constitutes a crisis as momentous as any of these.