PARIS -- Europeans are coming to terms with the fact that President Obama is not a miracle worker, and with the reality that everything he does is not magic. Oh, yes, most Europeans are still happy ...

President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan speech and his Nobel Prize acceptance speech have generated considerable discussion about the old dispute between realists and idealists in foreign policy. The ...

WASHINGTON--Every politician speaks glowingly about service to country, but few see national service as an important political issue. The temptation is to dismiss service proposals made by someone in ...

"Idealism" indicates concern for some higher good and "realism" shows concern for things as they actually are. Idealism runs through Greek thought, but their philosophers were realists and were ...

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) tends to be understood in the context of the Japan–China relationship. Japan’s pledge of US$30 billion in aid for Africa at TICAD 8 in ...

The death of Richard Nixon has brought renewed argument over the oldest disagreement in the American foreign policy debate, that of “realism” versus international idealism. Nixon is celebrated as the ...

Historians will lose no time in telling you that the rhetorical conflict between "realist" and "idealist" in foreign policy is not something new in American history. President John Quincy Adams argued ...

At 62, Justin Cartwright is a senior member of a masterful generation of English novelists that includes Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro. He has all that group’s relevant ...

Washington more often suffocates than satisfies our dreams, and this may prove to be the twenty-third season’s unwavering dramatic thread. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...