Policy Writing | jordantama

Selected Policy Articles and Reports

Jordan Tama, Jeffrey A. Friedman, Sahar Khan, Ali Wyne, Christopher Preble, and Mir Mohiuddin, “Will Foreign Policy Matter in the 2024 Presidential Election?” Inkstick (March 11, 2024)

Jordan Tama, “Democrats and Republicans Can Still Work Together in Some Important Areas of Foreign Policy, But Don’t Expect Unity,” LSE United States Politics and Policy Blog (January 10, 2024)

Jordan Tama, “Trump Didn't Invent Isolationism,” Foreign Policy (September 5, 2023)

Jordan Tama, “First Republican Debate Set to Kick Off Without Trump – But With the Potential to Direct the GOP’s Foreign Policy Stance,” The Conversation (August 22, 2023)

Jordan Tama, "Can Democrats and Republicans Still Cooperate on Foreign Policy?" Inkstick (August 22, 2023)

Craig Kafura, Dina Smeltz, Joshua Busby, Jonathan Monten, and Jordan Tama, “US Opinion Leaders Support Aid to Taiwan,” Chicago Council on Global Affairs (2023)

Jordan Tama, “The Surprising Bipartisanship of U.S. Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs (July 6, 2023)

Jordan Tama and Dina Smeltz, “How Would the American Public Respond to a Russian Invasion of Ukraine?” War on the Rocks (February 3, 2022)

Jordan Tama and Dina Smeltz, “Did Trump Remake the GOP?” On Foreign Policy, Not so Much," Politico (May 27, 2021)

Jordan Tama, Craig Kafura, Dina Smeltz, Joshua Busby, Joshua D. Kertzer, and Jonathan Monten, “Cooperation or Coercion: The Views of US Opinion Leaders on Foreign Policy Approaches,” Chicago Council on Global Affairs (March 2021)

Craig Kafura, Dina Smeltz, Joshua Busby, Joshua D. Kertzer, Jonathan Monten, and Jordan Tama, “Divisions on US-China Policy: Opinion Leaders and the Public” Chicago Council on Global Affairs (February 2021)

Jordan Tama, “Members of Congress Want a Commission to Investigate the Capitol Invasion. Here’s When These Work,” Washington Post (January 19, 2021)

Jordan Tama, Jonathan Monten, Joshua Busby, Joshua D. Kertzer, Dina Smeltz, and Michael Tierney, “Foreign Policy is Biden’s Best Bet for Bipartisan Action, Experts Say – But GOP Is Unlikely to Join Him on Climate Change,” The Conversation (December 9, 2020)

Jonathan Monten, Joshua Busby, Joshua D. Kertzer, Dina Smeltz, and Jordan Tama, “Americans Want to Engage the World: The Beltway and the Public Are Closer Than You Think,” Foreign Affairs (November 3, 2020)

Joshua Busby, Craig Kafura, Dina Smeltz, Jordan Tama, Jonathan Monten, Joshua D. Kertzer, and Brendan Helm, “Coming Together or Coming Apart? Attitudes of Foreign Policy Opinion Leaders and the Public in the Trump Era,” Chicago Council on Global Affairs (March 2020)

Elizabeth Rosenberg and Jordan Tama, "Strengthening the Economic Arsenal: Bolstering the Deterrent and Signaling Effects of Sanctions," Center for a New American Security (December 2019)

Elizabeth Rosenberg and Jordan Tama, "Add Economic Policy to Deterrence Planning," Defense One (December 16, 2019)

Joshua Busby, Dina Smeltz, and Jordan Tama, "Trump and His Advisers Are Probably Wrong about What Foreign Policy Americans Want,“ Washington Post (July 3, 2019)

Jordan Tama, Joshua Busby, Craig Kafura, Joshua D. Kertzer, and Jonathan Monten, “Congress has NATO’s Back, Despite Trump’s Unilateralism,” Washington Post (April 3, 2019)

Jordan Tama, "Why is the Senate Challenging Trump on Yemen? Here's What You Need to Know," Washington Post (November 30, 2018)

Dina Smeltz, Joshua Busby, and Jordan Tama, "Political Polarization the Critical Threat to US, Foreign Policy Experts Say," The Hill (November 9, 2018)

Jordan Tama, "What is the Global Magnitsky Act, and Why are U.S. Senators Invoking This on Saudi Arabia," Washington Post (October 12, 2018)

Jordan Tama, "The Nuances behind Recent Changes in Congress's Foreign Policy Role," The Hill (August 31, 2017)

Jordan Tama, "So Congress is Challenging the President About Sanctions? That Has a Long History," Washington Post (June 16, 2017)

Jordan Tama, "Strikes Against Syria: Did Trump Need Permission from Congress?" The Conversation (April 7, 2017)

Jordan Tama, "Russia, Trump, and the 2016 Election: What’s the Best Way for Congress to Investigate?” The Conversation (February 16, 2017)

Dina Smeltz, Karl Friedhoff, Craig Kafura, Joshua Busby, Jonathan Monten, and Jordan Tama, "The Foreign Policy Establishment or Donald Trump: Which Better Reflects American Opinion?" Chicago Council on Global Affairs (2017)

Jordan Tama, "Maximizing the Value of Quadrennial Strategic Planning," IBM Center for the Business of Government (2016)

Joshua Busby, Craig Kafura, Jonathan Monten, Dina Smeltz, and Jordan Tama, "How the Elite Misjudge the U.S. Electorate on International Engagement," Real Clear World (November 7, 2016)

Jordan Tama, "Why Strategic Planning Matters to National Security," Lawfare (March 6, 2016)

Joshua Busby, Jonathan Monten, Jordan Tama, Dina Smeltz, and Craig Kafura, "Measuring Up: How Elites and the Public See U.S. Foreign Policy," Foreign Affairs (June 9, 2015)

Dina Smeltz with Joshua Busby, Gregory Holyk, Craig Kafura, Jonathan Monten, and Jordan Tama, "United in Goals, Divided on Means: Opinion Leader Survey Results and Partisan Breakdowns from the 2014 Chicago Council Survey of American Opinion on US Foreign Policy," Chicago Council on Global Affairs (2015)

Joshua W. Busby, Jonathan Monten, Jordan Tama, and William Inboden, “Congress Is Already Post-Partisan: Agreement Across the Aisle on U.S. Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs (January 28, 2013)

Jordan Tama, “The Best Way to Investigate Benghazi,” Washington Post (November 18, 2012)

Jordan Tama, “In Defense of the Back-Room Deal,” New York Times (October 19, 2011)

Jordan Tama, “How an Afghanistan-Pakistan Study Group Could Help,” Progressive Policy Institute (September 2011)

Jordan Tama, “This Is a Job for a Super Committee,” Newsday (August 7, 2011)

Jordan Tama, “Three Cheers for Blue-Ribbon Panels,” Wilson Quarterly 35, 3 (Summer 2011): 30-34

Jordan Tama, “Intelligent Design,” Foreign Policy (January 11, 2010)

Jordan Tama and Benjamin Rhodes, “What’s Worth Fighting For? A Progressive View of the Use of Force" Truman National Security Project (July 2007)

Jordan Tama, “Commission Impossible?” The Atlantic (December 6, 2006)