Kevin Bunkley | Posted 10.24.2011
It is possible that President Obama is reverting back to a new version of Wilsonian diplomacy in order to let the Arab world sort itself out, instead of directly affecting the outcome with U.S. intervention.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Posted 09.04.2011
The Ronald Reagan Centennial Banquet on Monday night at Guild Hall was a glorious celebration. And yet, for this American, there was one glaring problem. It seemed so small, so wrong, so characteristic of the Obama Administration.
HuffPost Radio | Posted 06.26.2011
John Feffer | Posted 06.12.2011
When it comes to Barack Obama, political zoologists remain undecided whether he is a new kind of political animal and if his foreign policy represents a unique departure from the same old, same old.
Allan Gerson | Posted 06.06.2011
In considering the response of President Obama and the State Department to the Libya crisis, immediate parallels to Ronald Reagan's Grenada experience come to mind.
Raghida Dergham | Posted 06.04.2011
While the Obama doctrine is currently the focal point of a debate taking place among its proponents and critics, the Assad doctrine reveals two possibilities: that the space afforded for the debate is of a military and security nature.
Aaron David Miller | Posted 06.04.2011
Has Barack Obama become George W. Bush on foreign policy? If the President doesn't catch a break on Libya, he may well be on a glide path to regime change.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.31.2011
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asserted today that the U.S. mission in Libya was "confused," as he accepted a lifetime-achievement award from the American Chutzpah League.
Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 05.29.2011
We have one trade problem in this country that so far surpasses every other one that it is almost not worth talking about any of the others. The problem is Chinese subsidy practices.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.29.2011
Me and the guys, we stop off for a quick one the other night after softball practice, and there's absolutely nothing worth watching so they put on Obama and we watch Obama.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Rather than selling a war as an existential threat to America, American democracy, freedom, the flag, Mom, and apple pie (as pretty much every president has done for decades), Barack Obama's approach is something new: war as a nuisance.
David Millar | Posted 05.25.2011
Doctrines do matter: they shape, guide, inform and inspire our decisions, particularly in a crisis. And the events unfolding in Tunisia, Jordan, and especially Egypt drive this point home.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- The impression that the Obama administration is forever one step behind the unfolding events and chaos in Egypt this week is one left, i...
David Millar | Posted 05.25.2011
I believe that the declaration of a transformational American doctrine under Obama is still tenable -- even necessary. We can tread water, but we won't continue to lead the world in this century if we cannot state what we are committed to.
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011
That the Obama Doctrine and the foreign policy that the president has been pursuing are closer in terms of substance and approach to those advanced by Bush I and Clinton may sound like very good news.
Ken Blackwell | Posted 05.25.2011
During World War II, American productivity saved freedom for the world. But in the current era, Obama's economic policies will choke American innovation, and thus the power we project abroad.
AP | ANNE GEARAN and ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is breaking with the go-it-alone Bush years in a new strategy for keeping the nation safe, counting more on ...
Elie Mikhael Nasrallah | Posted 05.25.2011
Ultimately, foreign policy is a function of national capabilities. Given the limitations of power facing the US economically, militarily and politically, any grand foreign policy "Doctrine" has to wait for better days.
Steven Clifford | Posted 02.16.2010
What countries should America invade in the future? How should we wage war and govern them after a swift victory? Let us apply the lesson we learned from the quagmires of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011
An ultra-federalist culture would constantly seek to discover and bridge gaps between local systems for administering justice and the official machinery of the state courts.
Posted 05.25.2011
Pundits are reacting to President Obama's speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. On MSNBC's Morning Joe the hosts were surprised that the president ...
Dilip Hiro | Posted 05.25.2011
While the tone of the Obama administration is different from that of its predecessor, and some of its foreign policies diverge from those of George W. Bush, at their core both administrations subscribe to the same doctrine.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Conservatives reacted with shock and disdain to President Obama's Nobel prize, and some attacked his speech on Afghanistan before he even delivered it...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
If any president is going to "cut and run" from an American military engagement he or she better be a Republican. This narrative runs deep in American political discourse.
HuffPost Radio | Posted 03.05.2012