CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER'S IRVING KRISTOL LECTURE
A Good Overview of U.S. Foreign Policy

Charles Krauthammer is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Washington Post and he recently gave a speech on U.S. foreign policy at AEI's annual dinner. I first came across this on OxBlog and here is their commentary below:

CRYSTALIZING THE FOREIGN POLICY CONVERSATION: Charles Krauthammer presented the Irving Kristol lecture at AEI last week, which was a quite good analysis of the four most noticeable currents within the contemporary American foreign policy conversation (i.e., isolationism, liberal internationalism, realism, and global democratization). One of his more interesting moves in this lecture is to propose the rechristening (errr, brising) of neoconservatism as democratic globalism - which, inasmuch as it makes muscular, idealistic democracy promotion into more of an option which both political parties can adopt, is something of which we who are the tradition's partisans can wholeheartedly approve.