Council on Foreign Relations Articles

A Realist Rally

Leslie H. Gelb | Sep 03, 2008

As featured in the IHT: Realism can lead the way out of our foreign-policy shambles. But first the camp’s heavyweights need to bridge the partisan

I.M. Destler | Jan 03, 2007

McGeorge Bundy’s honest reversal on Vietnam contrasts with the Bush team’s unwillingness to look back—or forward.

| Dec 01, 2005

Too often, the Beltway conventional wisdom emerges without careful scrutiny, before the hard questions have been asked.

Owen Harries | Mar 01, 1997

The achievement of independence by the Indian subcontinent marked the effective end of the age of European imperialism.