Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to ad….

If there's any country that has the capacity not to control North Korea, but to influence North Korea, it's still China. The Chinese always say they ….

Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected..

Television was our chief tool in selling our policy..

Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker..

The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy..

I've worked for four presidents, and I've concluded that almost nothing is inevitable. History is to a significant extent the result of the interacti….

Well, we ought to make clear to everybody that the next Korean War, if one were ever to happen, is going to be the last Korean War because it's going….

I think Hillary Clinton is more suspicious, clearly tougher on Russian policy in Ukraine, Georgia, Syria; more willing to support sanctions; not agai….

We ought to be doing much more in North America. We are on the cusp of an energy revolution. And we do need to be doing more at home. The biggest nat….

Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation..

Jerusalem is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Israelis and Palestinians both lay claim to it as their capital. Jerusalem is the most se….

I think it was going to be hard to work with Russians on Syria. There is some potential overlap between the U.S. and Russia in that the Russians don'….

The U.S. position on Jerusalem was not the reason why there hasn't been progress towards peace. The reason is that both the Israeli government and th….

If the president Donald Trump had connected the Jerusalem question to some other positions, linking it to Israeli and Palestinian behavior or putting….

I think what Mr. Trump has made clear is that he would not undertake optional wars, what I have called wars of choice, a la, say Iraq in 2003 or Liby….

States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves..

China likes the idea of sovereign rights when it comes to organizing their politics as they see fit, and their economics. But they may grudgingly com….

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change..

Donald Trump is much more suspicious of international institutions; much more skeptical of the contributions that America's traditional allies have m….

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority..