This essayexamines four contending schools of American foreign policy.

Krauthammer's Irving Kristol Lectureon foreign policy and democratic globalism.

Years of waiting for China to play a more constructive global role have given way to the realization that American and Chinese national interests may simply be too divergent.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates just complete a very successful trip to Asia, which may represent a new Asia policy tack that promises to strengthen America's position in the region.

There has been an exaggeration on Israel being the source of problems in the Middle East.

It isn’t easy to attract 2,000 people to a conference on women’s rights. But Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, carried it off. On March 8, she filled an auditorium at Lincoln Center in New York City with mostly high-powered professional women and kept them enthralled for three days.

In Egypt's revolution, Mubarak's downfall marks not the beginning of the end, but rather the end of the beginning. Decisions made now will reverberate for decades. Speaking on an Arabic satellite channel just days after Mubarak's ouster, Secretary of State Clinton called for "a democratic transition with free and fair elections" while also acknowledging "the end of the road is what matters."

General David H. Petraeus will receive the 2010 Irving Kristol Award.