Outside Publications

The George W. Bush Institute In the years following World War II, democracy steadily spread across the globe and led to a period of relative peace and prosperity. The trend has begun to reverse, however, and Americans need to...

Gulf News Thinkers Even in the era of United States President Donald Trump, it’s not every day that you see the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee publicly accuse a president from his own party of leading the...

The National Interest Donald Trump’s decision to “decertify” Iran—which really means that the administration no longer is prepared to certify that Tehran is complying with the terms of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), colloquially known as...

The Washington Post For the past several years, American and South Vietnamese veterans awaited Ken Burns’s “The Vietnam War” series with gnawing fear. Would Mr. Burns use his talent and prestige to rehash the antiwar narrative, which casts veterans...

United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Watch the full testimony here....

The American Conservative We recognized that our article, “Saving Realism from the So-Called Realists”(published in the September issue of Commentary), represented a feisty critique of a prominent strand of academic thought. We are therefore not surprised that the scholars we...

The Washington Times In its zeal to make foreign policy, a power entrusted by the Constitution to the executive branch, Congress may be making a serious error regarding American interests in the Caucasus. Recently Congress threatened to impose sanctions...

Kyiv Post American foreign policy has reached a historic inflection point, and here’s the surprise: It has very little to do with the all-consuming presidency and controversies of Donald Trump. For roughly 25 years after the Cold War, one...

Kennedy School Review Thirteen days ago, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics offered a visiting fellowship to Chelsea Manning. Two days later, Doug Elmendorf, Dean of the Kennedy School, rightfully withdrew the fellowship. But the invitation should never...

The Hill In his speech to the General Assembly President Trump stepped on his own rake. He could have used the occasion to dramatize the UN’s own notorious failings, its bureaucratic bloat, habitual recourse to anti-Semitism and long-standing ineffectiveness...