Alan Tonelson

For all the talk of a “Pacific centuryf Americas natural partners lie across a different ocean

Ever dependent on cheap oil, the United States continues its meddlesome Gulf policy, which is based on an inaccurate picture of tangled Gulf politics

The nation must put its domestic necessities at the core of its relations with the world. This, the author argues, is a counsel not of isolationism— a shibboleth used to suppress fresh thought—but of realism

For almost half a century U.S. foreign policy has been based on internationalism—on the assumption that the security and prosperity of every place on earth is vital to America’s own. Internationalism, the author argues, has entailed enormous risks and costs—more than we can continue to bear or need to pay—and offers scant promise of success. It is time, he argues, for a new foreign-policy blueprint—a stripped-down strategy whereby the United States looks out for itself and recognizes that building its own strength, not creating a perfect world, is the best guarantor of its safety and well-being

Now in its fifth year of operation, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal appears to be working