A debate on the wisdom of global primacy.

A book review of Robert Lieber's, The American Era: Power and Strategy for the 21st Century.

Today Europe faces a great question indeed: whether a system of continual dilution of national sovereignty in order to create a pan-European government is more effective, stable, and just than one in which the continued sovereignty of numerous states allows them to determine their own destiny.

This monographsuggests thatthe world needs an American pax to provide both global peace and prosperity.

America is not just the most powerful nation on earth but, arguably, the most powerful nation in history. To protect the global trade routes of democratic capitalism and its own security interests, the United States can intervene anytime, anyplace. Although America’s domain is more sea-borne and space-based than territorial, some...

At AEI's Annual Dinner, President George W. Bush gave a major policy speechand the Institute bestowed its first annual Irving Kristol Award on Visiting Scholar Allan H. Meltzer.

America is supposed to be on the decline, and China on the rise. But the truth is, American leadership is still the global norm.

A military alliance with the United States makes sense for Japan, and Japan could prove to be a more important than Europe as an ally to the United States.