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Israel-Gaza Conflict

AEI’s Foreign and Defense Policy scholars are providing real-time analyses of the war’s trajectory, America’s evolving role in the Middle East, and the dynamics of Middle Eastern stability in the shadow of a growingly hostile Iran.

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A New China Playbook

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has spun a narrative that China is destined for dominance—a narrative that many inside and outside China have accepted uncritically. But AEI scholars’ research on China paints a different picture.

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“The Eastern Front” Special: “Before Bucha Was Abkhazia”

Please join the hosts of The Eastern Front for a special live conversation with Giga Bokeria, former secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia and the current leader of the pro-European, pro-Western opposition. Following their discussion, we will screen Before Bucha Was Abkhazia, a new documentary tracking Russian war crimes in Georgia.

Expanding Frontiers: Fiscal Policies for Innovation and Technology Diffusion

Amid security concerns and the need to reignite growth, countries are ramping up industrial policies to support innovation in specific sectors. Yet a new Fiscal Monitor chapter from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) shows that industrial policies are not a magic cure for slow growth. According to the IMF’s report, a well-designed mix of fiscal […]

Getting Higher Education Right

Higher education has a vital role to play when it comes to safeguarding the store of human knowledge, promoting scientific inquiry, and teaching wisdom to the next generation of civic and community leaders. But rising costs, bureaucratic bloat, double standards, and campus sloth have come to plague America’s colleges and erode Americans’ faith in them. […]

Lives Cut Short: A Project to Document Child Maltreatment Fatalities

Join us for the public launch of Lives Cut Short, a joint project of the American Enterprise Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill devoted to documenting these tragedies and understanding the circumstances and policy failures that led to them.

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