70 years after its implementation, the Marshall Plan continues to be held up as the gold standard of American foreign policy and mined for contemporary relevance. Why did it succeed?

By most measures of national security, the world is getting safer. So why do we feel so insecure?

A crisis-driven foreign policy will inevitably succumb to disorientation and exhaustion. The United States needs a serious discussion about its role in the world—one that matches objectives and means.

A century after World War I’s beginning, many observers wonder whether the U.S. and China are headed down a similar path to great-power war. While we must weigh that prospect seriously, we should not neglect more likely risks to global order.

Americans’ outdated conception of power could undermine U.S. foreign policy.

The United States cannot pursue a strategic foreign policy if each new crisis prompts it to rebalance to one flashpoint or another. It needs to identify a set of stable priorities, which is difficult if not impossible when one is in permanent crisis-management mode.