Will the U.S.-India relationship live up to its potential as a solid partnership between the world’s oldest and largest democracies, and have potentially transformative consequences for Asia and the world?

In a newly published op-ed, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Paul Wolfowitz, Mark Palmer, and Patrick Glenn emphasize that foreign assistance alone is a poor solution to reducing poverty and ineffective at improving governance in transitional democracies. Instead, the United Nations should establish Millennium Governance Goals.

If President Obama still wants to turn our economy around, it's time for him to act more like Franklin Roosevelt-but not in the way he might think.

Six decades after the defeat of fascist despotism in Europe, Russia's own civil liberties, political freedoms, rule of law, and democratic institutions are extremely weak and fragile, to the extent that they exist at all. Indeed, it is highly ironic that one of Europe"s least democratic and most repressive regimes today will be hosting an assembly of global leaders of free countries to celebrate the continent"s liberation.

For several weeks now it’s been clear that Putin won’t attend this month’s NATO summit in Chicago. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently spoke with Russia’s new/old president and explained that it’s “not possible and not practical” for Putin to participate because of his “busy domestic calendar.”

Only accountability to constituencies brings democracy.

Absolutely not. But maybe union pension plans should be. . . .

Shareholder access proposals, masquerading as the questionable notion of "shareholder democracy," would hamper corporate efficiency and profitability.