Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek discusses the need to move U.S. foreign policy beyond reliance on fear and toward a more rational outlook.  

The first meeting of the Council’s initiative entitled Campaign 2008 Series, presidential candidate John Edwards addresses council Members in a major foreign policy address.

James M. Lindsay, a former CFR director of studies, says a politically weakened Bush administration has been forced to broaden its support base through compromise.

American foreign policy expert James A. Lindsay says candidates for the 2008 presidential race will face the daunting issue of withdrawing troops from Iraq.  

Democrats are considering how far to take their standoff with President Bush on Iraq war funding now that he's vetoed a bill that would require a drawdown to begin early next year.

CFR's Julia E. Sweig says President Bush’s trip to five Latin American nations “went as badly as I expected it to.”

Amid protests President Bush’s five-country tour of Latin America has pressed ahead with efforts to boost relations with a region he is accused of neglecting.

Kenneth M. Pollack says Democrats should give President Bush’s new Iraq plan a chance, but also prepare alternatives.

Richard N. Haass, CFR president and a well-known Middle East expert, says what President Bush’s Iraq speech “represented more than anything else was the re-Americanization of the effort.”

Robert Dallek, a prominent historian on the American presidency, says that historians will remember President Gerald R. Ford as “a distinctly minor figure,” in part because he was in office for such a short period and “one cannot point to any great initiatives that changed the course of history, in my judgment, in that time.”

Setbacks in Iraq have prompted calls for rethinking the Bush administration's policies in the broader Middle East. Though seriously considering shifts in military tactics in Iraq, President Bush is sticking to his goal of spreading democracy in the region.

In this National Magazine Award nominee for excellence in public interest, Seymour Hersh questions whether the "damaged" Bush administration is more or less likely to go to war with Iran.