Who’s the greatest U.S. foreign-policy president?
Great president or greatest president?* How do the last 18 commanders in chief rank when it comes to managing an effective foreign policy? In the current issue of FP, we list only the top five, but the authors of Inside the Ivory Tower asked 1,112 international relations scholars for their opinions on every administration since ...
Great president or greatest president?* How do the last 18 commanders in chief rank when it comes to managing an effective foreign policy? In the current issue of FP, we list only the top five, but the authors of Inside the Ivory Tower asked 1,112 international relations scholars for their opinions on every administration since the original Rough Rider. Here's how the scholars answered the question, "Which THREE U.S. presidents have been the most effective in the area of foreign policy over the past 100 years?"
Great president or greatest president?* How do the last 18 commanders in chief rank when it comes to managing an effective foreign policy? In the current issue of FP, we list only the top five, but the authors of Inside the Ivory Tower asked 1,112 international relations scholars for their opinions on every administration since the original Rough Rider. Here’s how the scholars answered the question, “Which THREE U.S. presidents have been the most effective in the area of foreign policy over the past 100 years?”
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*: If you don’t get this reference, you obviously don’t watch the Colbert Report often enough.
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