We must harness Britain's generosity and compassion to help the rest of the world, says William Hague.

There's a fascinating interview in the Daily Caller with Robert R. Reilly, the author of The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist. A former director of Voice of America, he now serves as a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council. Here's a taste: 1) Why did you write the book? I was fascinated by Bernard Lewis’ book What Went ...

I voted for Tony Blair as Labour leader in 1994; I voted for him again to become Labour prime minister in 1997. I soon learned my lesson. As Prime Minister, he failed. Not so much domestically: sure, he disappointed but show me a political leader who doesn’t. But in foreign policy, Mr Blair was an

This is news for anyone who doesn't really follow defense issues. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he plans to retire next year. “I think that it would be a mistake to wait until January 2012,” Gates, 67, told Foreign Policy magazine, according to the article that appeared on the magazine’s website Monday. “I think that by next year I’ll be in a position where...

The US and the European Union may hold a summit in Lisbon in November, to make up for President Barack Obama's decision not to attend such a meeting in Spain earlier this year

I am increasingly becoming a fan of both Foreign Policy magazine and its website.  Here's an interesting article by a New York Times Magazine writer that attempts to lay out the costs associated with the US military's obvious but rarely spoken mission of ensuring a steady world flow of oil.  I am no financial analyst, so I can't tell how close the numbers he cites are--but...

Here’s your starter for ten in our Saturday slot where we throw up an idea or thought for debate: In all the recent controversy surrounding David Cameron’s recent foreign policy pronouncements some of the substance has perhaps been lost: here was the leader of a major European country unequivocally urging that Turkey be admitted as

David Cameron has been accused of making a wide number of foreign policy gaffes, though these fall into different categories. I think there is often a plausible defence of (somewhat inconvenient) truth-telling, even if Cameron’s recent comments about Pakistan appeared off-the-cuff rather than a deliberate strategy of increased public pressure. Beyond that, Cameron seems (laudably)

There will be red faces in Number 10 tonight after the latest foreign policy gaffe from David Cameron. Speaking today at his one of his PM Direct events, the Conservative leader stuck up for Turkey’s application to join the EU, stating it would be able to help Europe address a number of issues: I think

David Cameron has been accused of being a 'foreign policy klutz' after he mistakenly claimed that Iran possessed a nuclear weapon.