The relationship between foreign governments and members of Congress is generating headlines and drawing scrutiny. First, on May 3, the Department of Justice charged Texas Representative Henry Cuellar ...

The Biden administration is compounding its biggest foreign policy mistake by falling into a trap that has bedeviled U.S. policymakers often in the past. The initial mistake was embracing a dangerous, ...

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For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than Detroit, or Baghdad than Bozeman. It was a bipartisan delusion—driven by ...

A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China, by Dale C. Copeland (Princeton University Press, 504 pp., $38) Since 2015, foreign trade has moved to the ...

I have had occasion, over the last couple of years, to study and give some thought to U.S. national security strategy from Truman to today, in preparation for writing my book on that subject. At times ...

David Kenner is an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Something was stirring in the Syrian city of Hama. The Assad regime appeared to be losing control; it had issued vague warnings about an Islamist ...

On September 17, 1978, U.S. President Jimmy Carter faced a momentous crisis. For nearly two weeks, he had been holed up at Camp David with Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister ...

When it comes to foreign policy, history shows us there are two types of US vice president. A few amass outsized power and influence, like George W. Bush’s second in command, Dick Cheney, who was the ...

Biden’s domestic agenda was the most progressive of any president since Lyndon Johnson. But it was entwined with a foreign policy that leaves his legacy drowned in blood. On July 13, just eight days ...