PARIS -- Europeans are coming to terms with the fact that President Obama is not a miracle worker, and with the reality that everything he does is not magic. Oh, yes, most Europeans are still happy ...

In the ever-evolving arena of international politics, the concept of permanent alliances or perpetual hostilities often proves to be a myth. As Lord Palmerston had put it long ago, "We have no eternal ...

The foreign policy outlooks of New Zealand's two main political parties closely reflect two opposing schools of thought about international relations. The National Party's approach leans towards the ...

The general concepts of idealism and realism appear to have captured truths about what should be and what is, respectively. The idealist’s contemporary focus on the humanitarian consequences of ...

Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, has written a study of idealism vs. realism in American foreign policy from the Cold War through the end ...

The April 8 Sunday Opinion piece by Henry A. Kissinger and James A Baker III, "The grounds for U.S. intervention," sought to reconcile "idealism" and "realism" as criteria for U.S. military ...

After America emerged as a major international power in the early 1900s, its foreign policy was guided by two contending views of U.S. national interests: idealism, which emphasized American values, ...

THIS book is the outcome of a bold and engaging enterprise. It sets out to do two things; first (and chiefly) to cut a clean way through the tangled growth of modern epistemology by justifying the ...