Foreign Policy

A group of retired generals and diplomats recently sent an open letter to President Obama urging him to augment U.S. forces in Afghanistan and extend U.S. involvement there. Writing for The National Interest, Daniel Davis argues that doing so would be a flawed strategy, especially since Americans have not become any safer as a result […]

As part of the United States’ objective to stop China from engaging in island-building in the South China Sea, U.S. leaders have attempted to impose higher costs on China by sending warships and troops to the region and pursuing more substantial relationships with leaders in Southeast Asia. Writing for Cato at Liberty, Eric Gomez argues […]

Jeremy Lott, senior fellow at the American security Initiative Foundation, covered Stand Together Trust’s foreign policy conference, “Advancing American Security,” for The American Spectator. Lott described the conference as a forum to “inject realism, restraint, and consideration for concrete American national interests back into what passes for foreign policy debate today.” Lott recognized such debate as necessary, […]

Emma Ashford, research fellow in defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, covered Stand Together Trust’s foreign policy conference “Advancing American Security” for War on the Rocks. Ashford noted that the event provided a more thoughtful survey of American foreign policy over the past two and a half decades and, while panelists held […]

Caroline Dorminey, writing for The American Conservative, covered Stand Together Trust’s foreign policy conference “Advancing American Security.” In particular, Dorminey notes how panelists tended to strongly focus on U.S.-Russia relations. As she writes: “It’s possible that the panelists are stuck in a Cold War mentality, though that’s unlikely. More probable is that the preoccupation with the […]

On May 18, Stand Together Trust hosted Advancing American Security, a day-long conference dedicated to bringing together top policy experts for an honest and open inquiry into our nation’s foreign policy. William P. Ruger, vice president of research and policy at Stand Together Trust, explained why foreign policy is such a pressing issue: “It has […]

Christopher Preble, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, covered Stand Together Trust’s conference “Advancing American Security” for The National Interest.  Preble, a speaker himself at “Advancing American Security,” discusses how the conference provided a forum for a range of viewpoints regarding the appropriate use of military power. As Preble writes: […]

In his lunch keynote speech, Stephen M. Walt, the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, outlined a strategy of “offshore balancing,” which he believes is superior to the current strategy of liberal hegemony. Under a grand strategy of offshore balancing, the United States would focus on […]

This panel explored the challenges likely to face the next president of the United States and offered some suggestions for how he or she can best steer American foreign policy over the next four years. Panelists included Richard K. Betts, the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University; Barry R. […]

In this panel, Stand Together Trust’s vice president for research and policy William P. Ruger led Michael C. Desch of the University of Notre Dame, Michael E. O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, and Eugene Gholz of The University of Texas at Austin in a discussion of grand strategy, U.S. national interests, and what constraints and […]