In discussions about the Middle east, it's said that the greatest mistake was the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. That's not my view.

Until the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the American view of radical Islam and its many discontents was shaped more by the Middle East than South Asia. The U.S. has long been at odds with the raging Ayatollah in Iran, the murderous truck bomber in Lebanon and the masked Palestinian "freedom...

The prevailing economic development narrative--that centrally planned economies are doomed to fail against market-oriented alternatives--may require re-examination in light of the experience of the two Koreas during the Cold War.

Arthur Herman, author of the New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World, discusses his new book Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age.

Dr. Herman will discuss the forty-year rivalry between these two political icons, and reveal how it led...

A review of Daniel Mandel's H.V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover Zionist.

It is no surprise that the Middle East, one of our most intractable problems, provokes so much U.N. activity, even though the real-world consequences are so limited.

Panelists discussed the Koreas and Nick Eberstadt's upcoming book, Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea during the Cold War Era: 1945-91.

AEI's Nicholas Eberstadt demonstrates that the explanation for the divergent paths between North and South Korea is not so simple, while examining the factors that led to the outcome we now take for granted.