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10 Foreign-Policy Flashpoints in the GOP Platform

The Republicans will present a united front at the convention, but divisive issues are bubbling below the surface.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | AUGUST 24, 2012

President Paul

Ron Paul maybe a long shot in November, but he's America's best bet on foreign policy.

BY MICHAEL SCHEUER | MAY 3, 2012

Who Said It: Ron Paul or Ron Paul?

The Republican presidential candidate may be a party-switcher, but he's no flip-flopper.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | MARCH 20, 2012

Campaign Manager

Can a board game really simulate the grueling twists and turns of the campaign trail?

BY MICHAEL PECK | MARCH 14, 2012

The Ron Paul Revolution Continues

If they continue to malign and ignore the libertarian wing of the Republican Party, GOP elders will be slamming the door on their future.

BY CHRISTOPHER PREBLE | MARCH 6, 2012

Mad Libs: War Edition

What's on the horizon for warfare in 2012? FP asked some of the world's top experts to fill in the blanks.

MARCH/APRIL 2012

Super Freaks

Meet the Super PAC that wants to fight Islam, ban circumcision, and bury people at sea.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The Debate the GOP Didn't Have in Florida

Instead of repeating tired applause lines about Fidel Castro, here are the vital Latin American issues the Republican candidates should be talking about.

BY MICHAEL SHIFTER | JANUARY 30, 2012

The Military-Political Complex

Why is Barack Obama standing to the right of conservatives when it comes to cutting the defense budget?

BY JAMES TRAUB | JANUARY 20, 2012

Fighting Words

Mitt Romney and the GOP hopefuls sure like to talk tough about Iran’s nuclear threat. But if one of them wins in November, it’ll mean he'll have to walk the walk.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JANUARY 6, 2012

The World According to Ron Paul

Republicans are freaked out about what a libertarian isolationist in the White House would do to American power -- but not all Democrats are.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | DECEMBER 23, 2011

Fear Factor

Are Republican voters as concerned about Iran and radical Islam as their candidates?

BY SCOTT CLEMENT | DECEMBER 21, 2011

Politics Stops at the Water's Edge

After two foreign-policy debates, we still have no idea what most Republican presidential candidates would do about the actual issues facing America abroad.

BY MICHAEL COHEN | NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Crunching the Numbers on the GOP Candidates

What the polls tell us about the Republican candidates on foreign policy.

BY SCOTT CLEMENT | NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Ron Paul's Foreign Policy

Congressman representing Texas's 14th District

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The World According to the GOP

What do the 2012 Republican candidates have to say about foreign policy?

COMPILED BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 2011

The Elephants in the Room

Barack Obama's Republican challengers haven't thought very deeply about foreign policy. It shows.

BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 2011

The 2012 Horse Whisperers

Who's giving foreign-policy advice to the crop of GOP front-runners?

BY JOSH ROGIN | JULY 5, 2011

It's Evening in America

At the first GOP presidential debate, the Bush-era neoconservative movement seemed as good as dead.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JUNE 14, 2011

Fighting Words

From Gingrichian Red-baiting to Palinian Tea-Partyism, a quick primer on the GOP's foreign-policy punch lines.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MAY 11, 2011

A Tea Party Foreign Policy

Why the growing grassroots movement can't fight big government at home while supporting it abroad.

BY RON PAUL | AUGUST 27, 2010