American security depends on development as well as diplomacy and defense.

A national security strategy for the next President.

George W. Bush tried to do too much. Barack Obama has advocated doing too little.

In an increasingly unstable world, the Obama Administration has no clear-cut options.

The United States confronts two major foreign policy challenges: China, and the weak and restless. The alternatives for China are well known, and there is consensus about which of these is most attractive; Romney would not have followed a different course from the one that has been chosen by Obama. In contrast, there is no […]

The success of Barack Obama’s presidency will depend on his domestic accomplishments: health care, financial reform and the overall state of the economy. His presidency could be wrecked by foreign policy developments; it cannot be redeemed by them. The five big foreign policy challenges that the Administration confronts—North Korea, Iran, Middle East peace, Af-Pak and […]

Is the ideal of citizenship in decline? Depends on how you define it.