Despite its importance, the Galactic Bulge and its globular cluster (GC) system in particular, remain relatively unexplored due to high foreground extinction and severely crowded field populations. The new generation of high resolution IR spectrographs opens new and unique perspectives to obtain detailed abundances in the Bulge field and GCs. Using the NIRSPEC spectrograph at Keck II, high resolution, echelle spectra in the range 1.5–1.8 micron of bright giants in the Baade's window and other fields closer to the Galactic center as well as in a sample of 10 Bulge GCs have been obtained. We present the results of our abundance analysis of Fe, Al, 12C, 13C, O, and other α-elements, by using full spectral synthesis techniques.