Foreign Policy

Op-Eds

Our Self-crippled Policy Encouraged the Deadly Embassy Attacks [Foxnews.com]

Galt Goes Global [Foreignpolicy.com]

What Obama Should Say to Iran

Our Self-Crippled War

What We Owe Our Soldiers

Foreign Policy Op-Ed Archive

 

Press Releases

Safeguarding Afghanis More Important Than American Lives?

U.S. Appeasement Continues

Diplomacy Encourages North Korea's Belligerence

Pakistan's Surrender to the Taliban

How to End Piracy in the High Seas

Foreign Policy Press Release Archive

 

Letters to the Editor

Looking for Allies

Colombia Doesn't Need a Free-trade Agreement to Get Rid of its Self-destructive Tariffs

Poverty Causes Terrorism?

Bush Gets Rights Wrong at UN Speech

Not Attacking Iran Would Be Catastrophic

Foreign Policy Letters Archive

 

Articles

“End States Who Sponsor Terrorism”, by Leonard Peikoff.

Neoconservative Foreign Policy: An Autopsy, by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein, published in the Summer 2007 issue of The Objective Standard.

“Just War Theory” vs. American Self-Defense, by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein, published in the Spring 2006 issue of The Objective Standard.

Exposing Anti-Muslim “Conspiracies”, by Elan Journo, published in the Spring 2006 issue of The Objective Standard.

The “Forward Strategy” for Failure, by Yaron Brook and Elan Journo, published in the Spring 2007 issue of The Objective Standard.

The Jihad on America, by Elan Journo, published in the Fall 2006 issue of The Objective Standard.

Fanning the Flames of Terrorism, by Leonard Peikoff.

The Morality of Capitalism, excerpts from Ayn Rand’s “What Is Capitalism.”

 

Video & Audio 

Elan Journo on Winning the Unwinnable War


Yaron Brook & Daniel Pipes on The Threat of Totalitarian Islam

Part 1 of a Q-&-A series recorded Harvard University on May 6, 2008. See the complete series at YouTube.

Memo to U.S. Editors: Reprint Muhammad Cartoons

A press release presented by Elan Journo [print version

Israel and the West's War against Islamic Totalitarianism

Excerpts from a Q-&-A session by Yaron Brook (Hebrew with English subtitles)


The Road to 9/11: How America's Selfless Policies Unleashed the Jihadists
By Elan Journo (video lecture)

Totalitarian Islam's Threat to the West
A panel discussion featuring Yaron Brook, Daniel Pipes and Wafa Sultan (video panel)

Democracy vs. Victory: Why the "Forward Strategy of Freedom" Had to Fail
By Yaron Brook (video lecture)

Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons
A panel discussion featuring Yaron Brook and Daniel Pipes (video lecture)

America's Foreign Policy: Self-Interest vs. Self-Sacrifice
By Peter Schwartz (video lecture)

 

New Book from ARI

Winning the Unwinnable War

Winning the Unwinnable War is a provocative new book from the Ayn Rand Institute that offers principled and compelling answers to the problems and confusions that plague American foreign policy. Years after 9/11 and in the shadow of two protracted U.S. military campaigns in the Middle East, the enemy is not only undefeated but emboldened and resurgent. What went wrong—and what should we do going forward? This book is available now for immediate shipping from the Ayn Rand Bookstore.

» Buy the book
» Web site

 

Online Debates

The Ayn Rand Center's Elan Journo has been invited to debate the Heritage Foundation on the question "Should the U.S. Use Military Force against Iran?"

The debate is hosted by Opposing Views, a new Web site that sponsors online debates on questions regarding current news and events.

 

Ayn Rand on Foreign Policy

The Foreign Policy of a Mixed Economy (audio lecture)

Capitalism vs. Communism (video interview)

Global Balkanization (audio lecture)

The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus (audio lecture)

The Wreckage of the Consensus (audio lecture)

 

Related Items from the Ayn Rand Bookstore

The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America
By Peter Schwartz

The Foreign Policy and Terrorism Collection
a collection of ARI Lecture Series talks

The Jihad Against the West: The Real Threat and the Right Response
with featured speakers Daniel Pipes, Yaron Brook, Flemming Rose, Robert Spencer, Peter Schwartz and John Lewis

The Rise of Totalitarian Islam
By Yaron Brook

America vs. Death-Worship
By Harry Binswanger

The Meaning of Victory: 1945
By John Lewis

Defensor Patriae: The Homeland Defense in History
By John Lewis

 

 

"A proper solution would be to elect statesmen—if such appeared—with a radically different foreign policy, a policy explicitly and proudly dedicated to the defense of America's rights and national self-interests, repudiating foreign aid and all forms of international self-immolation."

—Ayn Rand, "The Wreckage of the Consensus," Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, p. 226

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