VIDEO: House Foreign Affairs Chairwoman on the Obama Doctrine

Foreign policy takes center stage in Washington this week as eight Republican presidential candidates gather tomorrow evening at DAR Constitution Hall for a debate hosted by The Heritage Foundation and ...

U.S. Smart Power and Postmodern Art: A Congruent Couple?

In its latest strategic move, billed smART Power, the State Department is sending abroad on Americans’ behalf not more Foreign Service officers but a cadre of elite artists. Their mission: ...

What Kirchner’s Win in Argentina Means for the U.S.

It came as no surprise when Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner swept the election on Sunday, earning herself a second term. After all, polls had projected her win for ...

Foreign Affairs, Anyone? Department of State Reaches Out to Americans

In its never-ending efforts to be hip, the U.S. State Department last week launched a new Web site called “Discover Diplomacy.” It has video clips, it has audio tracks, it ...

The Consequences of America’s Confusing Middle East Policies

The United States is scrambling to avoid a diplomatic crisis at the U.N. over a Palestinian statehood vote and a promised U.S. veto. As other countries try to find a ...

Obama’s Risky Iraq Drawdown Plans Prompt Open Letter from Foreign Policy Experts

A flurry of newspaper articles reporting that the Obama Administration may decide to disregard the advice of its military commanders and reduce the U.S. military presence in Iraq to less ...

Operation Fast and Furious: An Obama Foreign Policy Disconnect

During the past week, the U.S. and Colombia indicted and arrested more than 50 individuals charged with organizing maritime and aerial smuggling of cocaine from Colombia to the U.S. via ...

Why aren’t we working with Japan and India?

By Michael Green and Daniel Twining Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in India for a strategic dialogue that will focus on how China’s ascendance is transforming Asia. At her ...

Aiding and Abetting the Enemy

This past week, the Obama administration informed Congress that it had approved the sale of 125 M1A1 Abrams Tanks to the new unknown government of Egypt. The question of just ...

Obama Uses Europe as Backstop for Middle East Policies

A cynic may be excused  for saying that there was vintage Chicago in Barack Obama’s recently concluded trip to Europe. It started with the Irish and finished with the Poles ...