CSIS Commission on Smart Power, launched in 2006, develops a vision to guide America's global engagement in this report.

CFR's Noah Feldman examines the American urge to export democracy.

Daniel Markey, author of a new article in Foreign Affairs on Pakistan, discusses how the United States should handle Pakistan and its political crisis.

Deep divisions at home about the nature of the United States' engagement with the world threaten to produce failed leadership abroad -- and possibly isolationism. To steady U.S. global leadership and restore consensus to U.S. foreign policy, U.S. commitments overseas must be scaled back to a more politically sustainable level.

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards speaks with CFR.org Executive Editor Michael Moran about Iraq and other pressing foreign policy issues.

With presidential politics already coloring all aspects of international policymaking, CFR.org launches Campaign 2008 to track the tangle of foreign policy and national security issues throughout the election cycle.

Wu Yi, vice premier of China, argues for the importance U.S.-China economic links and says that both countries must rise to the challenges associated with globalization.

In Prospect magazine, Edward Luttwak argues that the rest of the world should stop paying so much attention to the modern Middle East -- unless compelled by immediate danger.  Most of the stated reasons for concern are either vastly exaggerated or flatly false.  

Kent Calder and Michael Green discuss Japan's “shift to proactive diplomacy” and what it means for U.S. foreign policy.

Professor Daniel Drezner discusses his March/April 2007 Foreign Affairs arguing that controversies over the war in Iraq and U.S. unilateralism have overshadowed a more pragmatic and multilateral component of the Bush administration’s grand strategy.