Foreign policy has once again become a matter of consequential dispute in American political life. Twenty-one respondents give their views on the current American role in the world and the proper direction of American foreign policy now and in the years a
About the Authors
Elliott Abrams, who served as an Assistant Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, is president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
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William F. Buckley, Jr., editor-at-large of National Review, is the author, most recently, of Redhunter, a novel based on the life of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Eliot A. Cohen is professor of strategic studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
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Francis Fukuyama is Hirst professor of public policy at George Mason University and the author, most recently, of The Great Disruption.
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Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., who held senior positions in the Reagan Defense Department, is currently the president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C.
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Owen Harries is the editor of the National Interest
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Jacob Heilbrunn writes regularly for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs.
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Robert Kagan is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and co-editor, with William Kristol, of Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy, forthcoming from Encounter Books.
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Zalmay Khalilzad, director of policy planning at the Department of Defense during the Bush administration, now directs strategic studies at the RAND corporation.
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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1981 to 1986, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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Charles Krauthammer, a contributing editor of the New Republic and the Weekly Standard, writes a syndicated weekly column for the Washington Post and a monthly essay for Time.
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William Kristol is the editor and publisher of the Weekly Standard.
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Michael Ledeen, who holds the Freedom chair at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of Machiavelli on Modern Leadership.
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Edward N. Luttwak is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. and the author, most recently, of Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy.
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Walter A. McDougall is a professor of international relations and history at the University of Pennsylvania and the editor of Orbis.
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Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of Exporting Democracy and The Imperative of American Leadership.
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Joseph S. Nye, Jr., who served as an Assistant Secretary of Defense in 1994 and 1995, is dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
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