At this early stage, prioritization is only one of several approaches the Trump administration may pursue. But for now, signs of prioritization are evident in the administration’s words and actions.

Setting a standard for Cold War foreign policy, the 1948 Republican platform and Truman at the 1948 Democratic convention emphasized “stopping partisan politics at the water’s edge.” ...

After the Cold War ended, Wilsonianism won out; America remained world-policeman, engaged in “democracy promotion,” and failed to reform now-anachronistic Cold War institutions.

The war in Ukraine threatens the post-Cold War order in Europe. Iran is well on its way to a nuclear bomb, and China’s shadow looms larger than ever over Taiwan.

America’s terrible post-Cold War foreign policy Starting ... Iraq in 2003, depose Mr. Saddam’s regime and begin a decade-long involvement in Iraq at the cost of trillions of US dollars.

Foundational to Inboden’s argument is the idea that U.S. Cold War policy lost its way in the 1970s thanks to the pursuit of “ détente” —the effort to lower tensions with the Soviet Union.

As the Cold War was ending in 1990, Jeane Kirkpatrick, the quintessential neoconservative, argued that we should now become “a normal country in a normal time.” ...

A decade after that 44-year conflict ended, Kennan, the somewhat dovish father of the United States’ Cold War containment strategy, contended in a letter to his more hawkish biographer, John ...

American policy in the original Cold War was to contain Soviet communism until it finally altered its character or collapsed. This time around there’s no universal ideology to combat, only ...

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Michael Kimmage, professor and department chair at the Department of History at Catholic University in Washington D.C., discusses his book, The Abandonment of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday outlined his vision for American foreign policy in the 21st century, an era he expects will be rife with challenges that demand U.S. leadership.