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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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When President Obama delivers his foreign-policy speech at West Point at 10:00 am ET, he confronts this reality: He’s largely giving the American public the foreign policy that it wants (especially ...

Some 40 years ago on April 30, when the last American soldier crawled into a helicopter that flew away from the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon, leaving behind terrified Vietnam refugees, the US ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Mr Luca J Uberti. Sir, It is hard to disagree with a call for pragmatism in matters of economic policy ...