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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new Trump administration is delivering huge changes in the way the federal government operates. One expected result is for the conduct of science programs to reflect realism rather than idealism ...

The United States will not sacrifice a nation's freedom for stability, President Bush has stated repeatedly, a policy applied especially in Eastern Europe and the states that emerged from the Soviet ...

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 ...

Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration’s foreign policy: He was defense secretary both for a hawkish President George W. Bush and then a wary President Obama. He ...

Ha’aretz’s Yair Sheleg gives a smart and succinct summation of what Israel’s disgruntled far-rightists, far-leftists and ultra-Orthodox fundamentally have in common: The Zionist revolution had many ...