Dan Drezner gives Romney's foreign policy "white paper" a solid B:
You've also demonstrated an appropriate awareness that American power rests on more than a strong military. When you note that a Romney administration would "apply the full spectrum of hard and soft power to influence events before they erupt into conflict (p. 8)," I caught myself nodding along. Some of the details are intriguing as well. I need to look more into these "Reagan economic zones" that you mention a lot, but applying them to Latin America and the Pacific Rim make a great deal of strategic and economic sense. I'm not fully persuaded that your notion of creating regional envoys to organize all "soft power resources" is all that different from the foreign policy czars or special envoys of administrations past, but this kind of argument fits well with your management background. That said, there are some logical flaws and major gaps in this draft that will have to be corrected if you want to earn a better grade.
James Joyner's exhaustive reading found it – much like Romney himself – pretty milquetoast.
The Dish 