Elliott Abrams argues that President Obama's recent State of the Union address settled the matter on the existence of an Obama Doctrine.

Elliott Abrams says Newt Gingrich has wrapped himself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan throughout the current Republican campaign, but the candidate repeatedly insulted the president in the 1980s.

Nikolas Gvosdev and Ray Takeyh argue that the justifying of America's Libya campaign solely on humanitarian grounds marked a fundamental break with past U.S. policy prescriptions for such military interventions.

Leslie H. Gelb explains why federalism is the best approach for creating a peaceful and independent Iraq.

Leslie H. Gelb says that twenty years after the end of the Cold War, persisting myths about a U.S. victory based on military spending and toughness blind today's policymakers from seeing clearly what actually won the Cold War and what matters most in 21^st-century global affairs—the strength of the U.S. economy.

Richard N. Haass says many of the world's bad guys departed the scene this past year, but looking back, 2011 was a year of great transition—not of transformation.

Leslie H. Gelb interviews U.S. vice president Joe Biden.

Charles A. Kupchan argues that a crisis of governability has beset the Western world, due in large part to globalization.

Richard N. Haass assesses the lessons of the Iraq war, concluding that wars of choice will in the future be harder to wage.

Richard N. Haass argues that the United States should adopt a doctrine of Restoration as its guiding foreign policy framework, focusing on "restoring this country's strength and replenishing its economic, human, and physical resources."

Leslie H. Gelb says that as the world's people are barely coping, politicians are ignoring them, and the media are trifling with them, President Obama needs to fight fire with fire.

Charles Kupchan states, "Tectonic shifts in international affairs and in political and economic conditions within the United States call for reconsideration of the first principles of American grand strategy—the fundamental tenets guiding the nation's statecraft."

Leslie H. Gelb argues that the Republican presidential candidates are giving up their party's hold on foreign policy.

Colonel Chad T. Manske, USAF, discusses the Carrier Classic 11-11-11, the Veterans Day intercollegiate basketball game aboard Navy aircraft carrier Carl Vinson.

Leslie H. Gelb argues that liberals and moderates are asking the right questions about where the United States should go on national security policy, and the foreign policy establishment needs to listen to them.

Leslie H. Gelb discusses bipartisanship and U.S. foreign policy.

Intervening militarily to save lives abroad often sounds good on paper, but the record has not been promising.

Elliott Abrams discusses what a new president in 2012 must do in his first hundred days to change American foreign policy.

Elliott Abrams, Eliot Cohen, Eric Edelman, and John Hannah, argue that former Vice President Dick Cheney advocation's for a U.S. strike to destroy the al-Kibar nuclear reactor built by Syria and North Korea was based on sound judgment.

Max Boot says that in retiring, Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks his mind as few Washington officials ever have.