Foreign Affairs Focus: Republican Foreign Policy with Bret Stephens br br Editor Gideon Rose interviews Wall Street Journal foreign affairs columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Bret Stephens on how to bridge the Republican foreign policy divide. Stephens discusses the competing perspectives of small-government conservatives fearful of amassing debt and big-military conservatives worried about cuts in defense spending. He argues that the party must come together to address rising issues in Iran, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries.