The current administration's foreign policy is often characterized (caricatured?) in the press as the "Bush" doctrine consisting of a specific brand of cowboy-inspired, reckless unilateralism.  

(via Instapundit) Walter Russell Mead writing for the Financial Times makes the argument that the true Oracle of Bush foreign policy is actually Condi Rice and that there is actually a delicate "post-Wilsonian" balance that she pursues between national interests and Global causes:

...Despite the public disagreements between the Pentagon and the State Department, the most striking thing about this administration's foreign policy is its intellectual consistency. The ideas that Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, outlined in a Foreign Affairs article in 2000 shape the administration's foreign policy today. In particular, Ms Rice laid down an approach to multilateralism versus unilateralism to which the administration has returned at every important moment since - and that forms the basis of the new US national security strategy.

Mead's conclusion articulates many of the frustrations that American policy wonks are currently having with European critics:

...Ms Rice's doctrine of realist multilateralism may not be an inspiring rallying cry and many legitimate and helpful criticisms of it can no doubt be made. But the policy, whatever its faults, is neither rudderless nor radical. Until the critics grasp that, they will continue to have little impact.

Condi's original article can be, uh, purchased here.