With the holiday season as a backdrop, Leslie Gelb, pays tribute to the United States' armed forces.

President Obama has had some success in fixing the foreign policy mess left to him by the Bush administration, writes Leslie Gelb, but he warns that foreign policy does not always work by analysis and logic.

"Thing are going to get worse before they get better," writes Walter Russell Mead, laying out a summary of the many things that have gone wrong during President Obama's first year in office.

Based on the recent findings of a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center and the Council on Foreign Relations, support for President Obama's foreign policy is dwindling amongst the American public, writes James Lindsay.

George Friedman compares the first year of President Obama's foreign policy to that of former President Reagan. He contends that Obama's strategy has been "enigmatic" early on and will need to define his policy in the months ahead.

Americans searching for a new Obama foreign policy, need to look back to the closing words of Obama’s West Point speech, writes Leslie Gelb, pointing to the president's emphasis on the United States' number one imperative: Economic Strength.

The irony of President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is that he has actually dialed down support for human rights around the world, writes Joshua Kurlantzick.

President Obama, a newly minted Nobel Peace Prize winner, now faces the daunting task of delivering on a range of challenges, especially nuclear nonproliferation and climate change, says CFR's Michael Levi.

Presentation Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize of Barack Obama, by Thorbjørn Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in Oslo.

The Times Online says that to earn his Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama must follow words with action.

In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance, President Obama, while arguing the need for peace, made a supremely realistic statement about the limitations of international institutions, the need to talk to tyrants, and the unavoidability of war, says CFR's Richard Haass.

James P. Rubin believes that President Obama has sacrificed too many democratic principles to a foreign policy guided by realism.

Amity Shlaes argues that President Obama's early defeats at the hands of Republicans could help his legacy in the long-run.

The Economist weighs in on the debate surrounding president Obama's diplomacy. Has he been clever, or weak? Does he have the strategy and the will to use force to fulfill his promises? The coming weeks, according to the Economist, may likely be his litmus test.

Elizabeth Economy provides a brief assessment of President Obama's China visit during his trip to Asia, writing that, "it was, optically, one of the worst U.S. presidential visits to Beijing in memory," however, substantively, it was on par with recent presidential trips to China.

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, James Goldgeier examines what the occasion meant for the Republican party, and how it has affected the U.S. presidency since.

Les Gelb points to stalled U.S. efforts in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and others as evidence that "Barack Obama has arrived at a terrible moment of truth in foreign policy."

CFR's Walter Russell Mead says the Nobel Peace Prize is a welcome sign of international recognition for U.S. President Barack Obama, but he says the president faces great global challenges ahead.

Elliot Abrams counteracts arguments that portray life among the Palestinians as unbearable and getting worse.

Peter Beinart discusses Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy legacy.