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.” ...

This fundamental debate has returned to American politics, more than three decades after the Cold War, which birthed the modern foreign-aid regime, and more than three years after the withdrawal ...

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.

Calls for American disengagement have gained steam this year as the nation has confronted the COVID-19 pandemic, economic recession and social unrest sparked by the murder of George Floyd.

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.” ...

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.

After a decade of Prometheus playing pygmy, the first task of the new [Bush] administration is precisely to reassert American freedom of action.” America, in short, could and should be unbound.

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.