The New York Times' David Brooks thinks Americans' foreign-policy ideas "stink." Stephen Walt writes that public discontent with U.S. foreign policy is well justified.

To discuss the future of the world order, America's relations with Europe, the status of Russia, and a Realist's assessment of the China challenge, Soli Özel, Institut Montaigne's Visiting Fellow in international relations, met Professor Stephen Walt in March in his office at the Harvard Kennedy School. 

Stephen Walt describes what a commonsense U.S. foreign policy would look like.

Stephen Walt writes that imagined communities will always be a powerful reality in international politics and acknowledging that is a good basis on which to construct a more realistic foreign policy.

Stephen Walt describes the five things that worry him the most today.

In the wake of National Security Advisor John Bolton's announcement that the United States had sent an air craft carrier to the Persian Gulf, Stephen Walt outlines five possibilities of what the Trump administration's objective for Iran could be.

Stephen Walt writes that the era of unilateralism is over—and Washington is the last to realize it.