How is Congress involved in foreign policy?

And can politics stop at the water's edge?

How is Congress involved in foreign policy? That is a topic of a recent episode of the Understanding Congress Podcast. My guest was american.edu/sis/faculty/tama.cfm, a Provost Associate Professor at American University’s School of International Service. He is the author or editor of five books on foreign policy. They are:

• Polarization and US Foreign Policy: When Politics Crosses the Water’s Edge, co-edited with Gordon M. Friedrichs (Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming)

• american.edu/sis/faculty/tama.cfm (Oxford University Press, 2024);

• american.edu/sis/faculty/tama.cfm, sixth edition, co-edited with James A. Thurber (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018);

• american.edu/sis/faculty/tama.cfm (Cambridge University Press, 2011); and

• american.edu/sis/faculty/tama.cfm, co-authored with Lee H. Hamilton (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002).

Listen in at american.edu/sis/faculty/tama.cfm.

Kevin R. Kosar (@kevinrkosar) is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the co-editor of “Congress Overwhelmed: Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform” (University of Chicago Press, 2020). He hosts the Understanding Congress Podcast.