"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After America emerged as a major international power in the early 1900s, its foreign policy was guided by two contending views of U.S. national interests: idealism, which emphasized American values; ...

Peter Scoblic is the executive editor of The New Republic and the author of U.S. vs. Them, which is now out in paperback. Like my colleagues, I am rapt by the sight of the Iranian protests. In fact, ...

Back in October 2007, when Barack Obama was still considered a long-shot candidate for president and Michael McFaul was a professor at Stanford University, I was working on a story on U.S.-Russian ...

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 ...

On Saturday March 6, I missed the zoom webinar organized by the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation in celebration of the sage’s 112th Birthday. Missing the event was unavoidable because my second dose of the ...

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 ...

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Broadly speaking, for a number of years there have been two competing camps struggling for primacy over American foreign policy. The ...