Experts discuss what lessons the military learned during the Iraq war, and how the war in Iraq will influence future policy making.

Experts discuss what lessons the military learned during the Iraq war, and how the war in Iraq will influence future policy making.

Experts discuss what lessons the military learned during the Iraq war, and how the war in Iraq will influence future policy making.

Experts examine the effects of the current Congressional stalemate, minimal economic growth, and the increasing debt burden on U.S. foreign policy in the Obama administration.

On the occasion of its 90th anniversary, CFR will examine through a series of meetings and other projects how policies at home will directly influence the economic and military strength of the United States and its ability to act in the world.

Experts examine the effects of the current Congressional stalemate, minimal economic growth, and the increasing debt burden on U.S. foreign policy in the Obama administration.

On the occasion of its 90th anniversary, CFR will examine through a series of meetings and other projects how policies at home will directly influence the economic and military strength of the United States and its ability to act in the world.

On the occasion of CFR's 90th anniversary, we will examine through a series of meetings and projects how policies at home will directly influence the economic and military strength of the United States and its ability to act in the world.

From his new book, Michael Mandelbaum lays out the challenge of the U.S.'s activist foreign policy, including an expensive war on terror, in an age of economic retraction and pending entitlements. Mandelbaum is a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins, as well as the director of the American Foreign Policy Program there.

The era in which U.S. foreign policy could be driven in counterproductive directions by an excess of power is in the process of ending.

Listen to experts discuss the social, political, and economic implications of the U.S. population surpassing 300 million.

Professor Michael Mandelbaum discusses his book, The Case for Goliath, in which he explains how the United States uses its enormous power to provide the world with the services of a government. The U.S. plays this role with the tacit consent of many of its critics, he says.