We see ourselves as an insular nation, but other countries know otherwise—and are attempting to undermine U.S. global hegemony.
Andrew J. Bacevich laments American militarism.
There is much room for debate on the soundness of neoconservative policies. But a serious assessment of neocons and their role in the Bush Administration is a necessary starting point.
Is the United States really as strong and wise, and "Old Europe" as weak and wooly-headed, as many American foreign policy pundits and practitioners think? Another way to read Transatlantic realities.
Robert Kaplan advocates a pagan ethos for American statesmen in the 21st century, but not all pagans think alike.
Can John Mearsheimer's analysis of "offensive realism" explain or guide U.S. foreign policy? Better, perhaps, than the author realizes.
Walter Russell Mead's new book deploys the ideas and heirs of Hamilton, Wilson, Jefferson and Jackson to illuminate the future of U.S. foreign policy.
A dissection of the few pluses and many minuses of the crusading approach to American foreign policy.
Preventing the spread of atomic weaponry is less in our control than we think.
Pedestrian books can sometimes serve salutary purposes.