Back in March, Roger Cohen wrote of how Iraq taught him to be cautious about intervening recklessly in countries we don't understand: There are many reasons I oppose a Western military intervention in ...

How can the Western world respond to the mass migration of desperate refugees and economic migrants into its territory? The challenge seems all the more pressing in the light of the tragic scenes ...

A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role. John A. Thompson, 2015. The story of the United States’ ascendance to the pinnacle of global power has been told many times before, by authors ...

When President Obama delivers his foreign-policy speech at West Point at 10:00 am ET, he confronts this reality: He’s largely giving the American public the foreign policy that it wants (especially ...

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French bombs have been falling on Syria since the end of September, reinforcing France’s tough new image in the international and English-speaking press. The French have been known for many years as ...

In a polarized environment, where political elites have staked out opposing positions on whether to vaccinate against a plague, we might not expect much agreement on complex matters of military ...

Some 40 years ago on April 30, when the last American soldier crawled into a helicopter that flew away from the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon, leaving behind terrified Vietnam refugees, the US ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We are all interventionists now. In the US, not long ago the bastion of free market thinking, fear of China, ...

The Afghan Taliban' takeover of Kabul on August 15 once again proved that the US interventionist policy based on hegemony had failed. However, the price of this failure is too high for both the Afghan ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Mr Luca J Uberti. Sir, It is hard to disagree with a call for pragmatism in matters of economic policy ...