Is global governance fundamentally different from earlier forms of international cooperation? Is it a necessary response to the effects of globalization? Does the U.S. Constitution limit the ways the United States can engage in global governance? The AEI Project on Sovereignty will explore the effects of globalization on international law, institutions and the Constitution. 

How do civil society organizations operate in the authoritarian environment of Vladimir Putin’s “sovereign democracy?”  To what extent are they able to further their causes despite pervasive corruption and the rule of courts that take their cues from the Kremlin?

The Nobel Peace Prize is the world’s most prestigious award, as Jay Nordlinger argues in this erudite and insightful history. He has written not only the go-to reference book for the prize and its laureates but also an important philosophical reflection on the nature of “peace” in modern times.

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.

Answering questions without a shade of fear or reticence and with remarkable thoughtfulness and self-awareness, the men and women we interviewed in Russia revealed deeply personal, passionate commitment to dignity in liberty and citizenship.

A controversial dimension of the financial crisis has been the role of credit ratings and the perverse incentives facing rating organizations.

The UK prime minister's call to cut aid over gay rights is a play to a domestic audience.

The Obama administration envisions accountable care organizations (ACOs) as the drivers of health care innovation, but such innovation has historically come from entrepreneurs in the private sector.