Two films show the fight in Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.

One year into his first term, we pretty much knew where a new President was located on the classical ideological axes of American foreign policy: internationalism vs. nationalism, realpolitik (Nixon, George H.W. Bush) vs. idealpolitik (Jimmy Carter). Within internationalism, there has always been an additional distinction: exemplarism vs. interventionism. Would America shine by example and […]

How do we want the North Korea problem to end? The Joint Statement adopted in the Six-Party Talks in September 2005 has provided the single most comprehensive scenario to date. If everything envisioned in that statement comes to pass, we will have a world in which: North Korea has abandoned its nuclear weapons programs and […]

Kenya, two years after the bleeding.

Every time I’m about to pile on President Obama for his foreign policy errors, I have to check myself and recall his painful starting point. George W. Bush left him with the worst heap of inflammatory international garbage and country drownings in American history. The only problem Bush made better, in fact much better, was […]

A former President of Ecuador diagnoses Latin America’s real ailment.

Meet Louis Bromfield, godfather of the organic farming movement.

Barack Obama has based his policies as President on two assumptions. One year after his election both assumptions appear to have been mistaken.His domestic policies have been based on the assumption that economic distress would produce an increased demand for, or at least acceptance of, big government policies. The financial crisis of September 2008 had […]

The Administration has made a good beginning in recasting Western Hemisphere affairs.

A year ago, with the election of Barack Obama, it seemed to many that America and its role in the world might be transformed. A powerful post-ethnic, post-Cold War coalition had been created by a man who seemed able not only to transcend cultural differences and economic barriers, but also to exert American leadership in […]