Does Your Candidate Even Have a Foreign Policy? (Micah Zenko, CFR)

To the extent there has been any attention paid at all to foreign policy in the ongoing presidential campaign, the focus has been exceedingly narrow. The moderators of the primary debates have seemed mostly interested, if anything, in discussing counterterrorism policy and, even then, just those relatively miniscule aspects of terrorism that impact U.S. citizens. Meanwhile, when interviewers have tried asking broader foreign-policy questions, they’ve generally refrained from following up with clarifying questions. (Recent sit-downs with Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have been welcome exceptions.)

But just because the media circus has displayed an unusual disinterest in foreign policy, that doesn’t mean individual voters are obliged to. Here are eight questions to help you evaluate the soundness and seriousness of the remaining candidates’ foreign-policy positions.

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