Foreign Policy Follies

While one political party offers a bold, coherent, and failed vision for foreign policy, the other has proffered an inchoate and incoherent response that falls far short of a strategy. Matthew Yglesias -- a known "ringleader-of-sorts for the D.C. blogging community" -- suggests looking past both parties to offer a set of tried-and-true approaches for renewed internationalism and U.S. engagement with the world.

Participants

• Matthew Yglesias
  Associate Editor, Atlantic Monthly
  Author, Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats

• Patrick Doherty
  Deputy Director, American Strategy Program
  New America Foundation
  
  

Related Links

• Matthew Yglesias' WTOP radio interview with hosts Dimitri Simes and Bob Kur (May 12, 2008)