U.S. Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy asked nine global experts for their takes on the administration’s agenda.

The administration’s core foreign policy is all about confronting China—and far riskier than Washington seems to realize.

Ben Rhodes’s new book about global politics reveals the limits of the Obama administration’s worldview.

Why is there no Rooseveltian school of foreign policy? American past and future greatness is unthinkable without it.

The two-time defense secretary’s hubris helped shape twin quagmires for U.S. forces.

How our understanding—or misunderstanding—of other countries’ perspectives shapes global order.

Russia’s blockage of aid deliveries threatens to make Syria’s humanitarian disaster the worst it’s been since the war began.

How the literary theorist’s life and work shed light on the epic failure of U.S. Middle East policy.

The benefits of U.S. support no longer outweigh the costs.

… But don’t tell him that.

An era of U.S. grand strategy is now ending. Here’s what should come next.

The Biden administration’s new mantra falls one step short.

Part of making foreign policy work better for Americans is empowering local leaders.

Jake Sullivan, Biden’s “once-in-a-generation intellect,” is facing a once-in-a-generation challenge.

Outcomes, not optics, should be the measure of U.S. policy in Europe.

His call to wage a global war for freedom echoes the dawn of the Cold War.

The new administration is trying to forge a new national consensus on grand strategy that doesn’t privilege the rich.