For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than Detroit, or Baghdad than Bozeman. It was a bipartisan delusion—driven by ...

A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China, by Dale C. Copeland (Princeton University Press, 504 pp., $38) Since 2015, foreign trade has moved to the ...

I have had occasion, over the last couple of years, to study and give some thought to U.S. national security strategy from Truman to today, in preparation for writing my book on that subject. At times ...

David Kenner is an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Something was stirring in the Syrian city of Hama. The Assad regime appeared to be losing control; it had issued vague warnings about an Islamist ...

The Biden administration is compounding its biggest foreign policy mistake by falling into a trap that has bedeviled U.S. policymakers often in the past. The initial mistake was embracing a dangerous, ...

Today Craig finishes up our series on U.S. Government and Politics with Foreign Policy Today Craig finishes up our series on U.S. Government and Politics by talking about both the least and most ...

Biden’s domestic agenda was the most progressive of any president since Lyndon Johnson. But it was entwined with a foreign policy that leaves his legacy drowned in blood. On July 13, just eight days ...

Biden’s wars and the unmaking of liberal foreign policy. A new book on the Biden’s wars serves as a stark reminder that the Democrats need to formulate a new foreign policy—as well as reckon with the ...

The president’s foolish trust in Netanyahu was a terrible mistake. It’s not too late to correct—barely—but tough medicine is required. The Biden administration is compounding its biggest foreign ...