From the days of his earliest foreign policy salvos, launched from the neoconservative mothership Commentary in the 1980s, Robert Kagan has held two core beliefs. First, though it is rare in human ...

Rep. Nydia Velázquez is reintroducing a resolution in the House of Representatives calling on the State Department to formally move beyond the Monroe Doctrine, arguing that current U.S. policy toward ...

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma we listen to a talk from Eli Lake, a national security journalism fellow at the Clements Center and a syndicated columnist on foreign affairs for Bloomberg. Lake ...

It has always struck me as odd that the most thoughtful advocates of protectionism within the conservative movement also tend to be the fiercest advocates of non-interventionism. Patrick Buchanan ...

Back in March, Roger Cohen wrote of how Iraq taught him to be cautious about intervening recklessly in countries we don't understand: There are many reasons I oppose a Western military intervention in ...

President Donald J. Trump has threatened to impose a new round of tariffs and sanctions against Brazil after Brazil's Supreme Court sentenced the former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years ...

This is part of a debate about humanitarian intervention. Click here to read other contributions by Richard Just, Leon Wieseltier, and Michael Kazin. There is a great deal of debate, not least in both ...

A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role. John A. Thompson, 2015. The story of the United States’ ascendance to the pinnacle of global power has been told many times before, by authors ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We are all interventionists now. In the US, not long ago the bastion of free market thinking, fear of China, ...

How can the Western world respond to the mass migration of desperate refugees and economic migrants into its territory? The challenge seems all the more pressing in the light of the tragic scenes ...