In the United States, presidents may hope to be remembered for a foreign policy doctrine or a social program.

Americans transform every success and every failure in foreign affairs into a policy doctrine and a political cudgel.

How was this possible, especially given the lack of a clear American foreign policy doctrine?

Mr. Bush, who has made preemptive war the core of his foreign policy doctrine, might do just that.

What, then, is the appropriate foreign policy doctrine for the United States?

Around 2002 and 2003, this security policy seemed to merge with the foreign policy doctrine known as China's peaceful rise.

It represents not a foreign policy doctrine but an intellectual vacuum.

As an academic, he has outlined his foreign policy doctrine in several writings, most important of which is his book "Strategic Depth."

With that speech, President Bush's foreign policy doctrine transcended the war on terror.

For the policy doctrine in search of Washington credibility, being championed by a science-fiction writer is not necessarily an asset.