The Irving Kristol Lecture is delivered at the AEI Annual Dinner in Washington. AEI's Bradley Lecture Series aims to enrich debate in the Washington policy community through exploration of the philosophical and historical underpinnings of current controversies. A series of seminars that discussed the growth of Chinese power and influence in Asia.

Bringing reformers together and giving them a way to make their views heard will help solidify the belief that widespread democracy in the Middle East is possible.

AEI's Election Watch series returns for its fifteenth season, bringing together AEI's nationally renowned team of political analysts--Michael Barone, Karlyn Bowman, John C. Fortier, Henry Olsen, and Norman J. Ornstein.

In its inaugural 2009 Free Enterprise Lecture Series, AEI hopes to foster a discussion of the merits of free enterprise through a series of provocative and engaging seminars in a relaxed setting with some of AEI's most renowned scholars. The Gauer Distinguished Lecture in Law and Public Policy is a major scholarly discourse by a national or world leader. Delivered annually by a scholar who has made major contributions to our understanding of the modern phenomenon of globalization and its consequences for social welfare, government policy, and the expansion of liberal political institutions. A series of approximately fifteen conferences dealing with various economic and regulatory issues surrounding the mutual fund industry. AEI's new Politics Watch series runs from January through May. Policymakers, defense analysts, and foreign policy specialists considered how to increase the likelihood that Iraq's totalitarian system would not be reborn under different leadership if Saddam was removed from power. This series addressed the future of the United Nations.