Michael Mandelbaum

A foreign policy expert explains that the end of the Cold War led to American intervention in conflicts non-essential to its interest, which weakened the U.S. standing in the world.

We wrote this book because neither of us want to be on duty when the American dream goes dark. — Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and New York Times columnist Thomas L. Frie...

Foreign policy expert Michael Mandelbaum argues that the age of America’s expansive foreign policy is coming to an end. The country's soaring deficits, fueled by the huge costs of the financial crash and our government entitlement programs, will mean a scaled-back American international presence. In The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era, he describes the policies the United States will have to discontinue, assesses the potential threats, and recommends a new kind of foreign policy.

The President continues to weigh is options over troop levels and overall policy in the war in Afghanistan. Michael Mandelbaum, professor of foreign policy at Johns Hopkins and author of Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government discusses the ...