There are five broad trends leading to greater instability in the South China Sea in the coming years. These are the failure of UNCLOS--or the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea--a weakening of ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations), China's evolving South China Sea policy, Southeast Asian military modernization, and a hollowing out of the U.S. military.

S&P lowered the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA+ amidst concerns about the government's budget and the rising debt burden. Does this mean the United States is on the verge of default?

There may be some efforts to slow down IPAB implementation by refusing to feed it with funding. So the likelihood is that this may die a slow, quiet death over several years, as opposed to the great horrors that people are imagining.

The Doha Round will most likely not be completed in 2011, although it would go farther than any other single trade advance to further the goals of doubling US exports by 2014.

To mark the anniversary of the detention center's non-closure, AEI's Enterprise Blog has asked several experts to weigh in on the importance of Guantánamo Bay.

The decade of relative prosperity prior to the fall was importantly fueled by an expansion in credit and rising leverage that spans about 10 years; it is followed by a lengthy period of retrenchment that most often only begins after the crisis and lasts almost as long as the credit surge.

To bring America back to the path that leads to flourishing, free enterprise advocates must abandon their traditional arguments about material efficiency and make the moral case for the system they love.  

While the presidential candidates' choice of words and their party affiliations distinguish them, their foreign policies do not.