The guessing game over Kamala Harris’s foreign policy

Is Vice President Kamala Harris a “human rights hawk,” who would use American power to promote democracy and freedom abroad? Or is she a “pragmatic internationalist” who would back gingerly away from American hegemony?

Is she poised to end an era of American hubris and restore humility to our foreign policy? Or does her forceful rhetoric on America’s role in the world reveal an “inner Reagan”?

Two months out from the presidential election, there’s rampant speculation about what a “Harris doctrine” for foreign policy could look like, but it often seems to reveal more about what the person doing the speculating wants (or doesn’t want) in the next president than any particular worldview articulated by Harris.