At Foreign Policy, Jeremy Rosner and Stanley Greenberg argue that Americans believe in President Barack Obama's foreign policy competence, and that Republican candidates' attacks on his national security record will likely have limited resonance.

Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie outline how to talk about Obama's foreign policy vulnerabilities for a Republican electoral strategy.

Jerome A. Cohen discusses the successes of the Shanghai Communique forty years later and says challenges lie ahead for political leaders to preserve both peace in East Asia and freedom for the people of Taiwan.

Uri Friedman discusses the evolution of Rick Santorum's hard-lined aproach to Iran, drawing from the potential candidate's time at the Ethics and Public Policy Center to his current polemic.

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

This report provides a brief overview of the transition underway and information on U.S. foreign aid to Egypt. U.S. policy toward Egypt has long been framed as an investment in regional stability, built primarily on long-running military cooperation and sustaining the March 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.

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.