{"id":1172,"date":"2026-01-13T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfrdevwp.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:03:35","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/ten-best-ten-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-home.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"add_banner_image":[{"add_image":482},{"add_image":2466}],"banner_top_text":"U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions","banner_bottom_text":"The Ten Best and Ten Worst","start_year":"1775","end_year":"2020","first_heading":"U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions","second_heading":"The 10 Best and 10 Worst","controversy_text":"For two-and-a-half centuries, the United States has faced a challenging world. Some of its responses have bolstered U.S. interests and values. Others have not. We asked members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations what they considered to be the ten best and ten worst foreign policy decisions in U.S. history. Here is what they said.\r\n<em>By <a style=\"color: white;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/expert\/james-m-lindsay\">James M. Lindsay<\/a><\/em>"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/ten-best-ten-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/ten-best-ten-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/ten-best-ten-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/ten-best-ten-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/ten-best-ten-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/ten-best-ten-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/ten-best-ten-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1172\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/ten-best-ten-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}