Elizabeth Warren Has (Half) a Foreign Policy

A crucial challenge for the Democratic Party is to formulate a foreign policy platform that goes beyond critiquing Donald Trump and lays out a compelling vision of America's role in an increasingly dangerous world. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who will likely be a leading candidate for the party's nomination in 2020, offered up her vision in a recent speech at American University. That speech (and an accompanying article in Foreign Affairs) outlined a strategy of progressive internationalism — a commitment to U.S. global leadership on behalf of a liberal international order, influenced by a biting progressive critique of how that leadership has been exercised in recent decades.
 
There is a great deal to like in Warren's vision, which revives the tradition of confident, ideologically assertive liberalism that drove Democratic foreign policy during the early years of the Cold War. The question is whether the senator is willing to support that vision with the specific tools and policies needed to make it a reality.