" At dinner with a group of friends, one asked what I had been doing lately. When I said I was
writing a book on presidents, ethics and foreign policy, she quipped" it must be a short …

Most international relations specialists since World War II have assumed that morality plays
only the most peripheral role in the making of substantive foreign policy decisions. To show …

JLn a small volume of lectures published nearly thirty-five years ago, 1 I had the temerity to
suggest that the American statesmen of the turn of the twentieth century were unduly …

Is the world witnessing the demise of the US-led liberal order? If so, this is not how it was
supposed to happen. The great threats were supposed to come from hostile revisionist …

On the one hand, Americans are famous for being a practical people, preferring fact to
theory, finding the meaning of proposi tions in results, regarding trial and error, not deductive …

It is often said that the foreign policy of the United States is in need of maturing and that the
American people and their government must grow up if they want to emerge victorious from …

Barack Obama and I left office on January 20, 2017. President Donald Trump has belittled,
undermined, and in some cases abandoned US allies and partners. He has turned on our …

First of all, that, as the Director of the Program on US Global Engagement here at the
Council, I can't think of anyone better equipped to talk about common sense in American …

(" I know more about isis than the generals do. Believe me"), building a wall along the US-
Mexican border (" Believe me, one way or the other, we're going to get that wall"), or the Iran …

Debates about US foreign policy have revolved around three main traditions--liberal
internationalism, realism, and nationalism. In this book, distinguished political scientist …