Foreign Policy

Essential Reading

• The War on Terror’s Total Cost: $5,900,000,000,000
  Daniel R. DePetris, RealClearPolicy
  Bottom Line: The United States has racked up an exorbitant price tag to fight the war on terror, at great humanitarian cost. With the number of jihadist fighters overseas on the rise...
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• A World Imagined: Nostalgia and Liberal Order
  Patrick Porter, Cato Institute
  Bottom Line: The exaggerated notion of the “liberal order” and its imminent collapse is a myth of the foreign policy establishment and leads America to overstretch. In reality, effor...
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• Partisan Divisions on Foreign Policy Widened in 2018
  Craig Kafura, Dina Smeltz, Lily Wojtowicz, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
  Bottom Line: Has the domestic partisanship of the last decade finally become ingrained in international decision-making? 2018 saw the most significant gap in decades between Democrat...
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• Withdrawing From Overseas Bases: Why a Forward-Deployed Military Posture Is Unnecessary, Outdated, and Dangerous
  John Glaser, Cato Institute
  Bottom Line: In the absence of a major peer competitor, and in an era of low-security threats, the policy of maintaining a constant worldwide overseas military presence is unwise. A ...
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• Conventional Deterrence: An Interview with John J. Mearsheimer
  Strategic Studies Quarterly
  Strategic Studies Quarterly sought out John J. Mearsheimer for a July 2018 interview on his book Conventional Deterrence (1983), to re-examine its analyses in the context of foreign policy to