Terms of Engagement
List of Terms of Engagement articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Attack of the Zeros
Will the rise of a new class of Cold Warriors doom Obama's nuke treaty?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Bad Politics Is Better Than No Politics
Why Iraq's bloody democracy isn't so terrible.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 COIN Toss
Is Hamid Karzai worth the fight in Afghanistan? We'd better learn the answer soon -- or give up the counterinsurgency game.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 It’s Not Too Late to Save Kyrgyzstan
Russia and the United States weren't able to stop the recent outbreak of violence and ethnic cleansing in Osh. But there's still time to prevent the worst.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Turkish Dilemma
Once a reliable Western ally, Turkey is now going its own way in the Middle East. And nobody in Washington or Brussels knows what to do about it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Two Cheers for Multilateralism
Why the nuclear review conference was a minor triumph for Obama.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The World According to Barack Obama
The U.S. president's new National Security Strategy says more about the views of the man in whose name it was written than it does about what America must do next.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Whoa There, Rising Powers!
Brazil and Turkey's diplomatic forays may be annoying, but they also signal a huge shift in the way the world works. Is Obama paying attention?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Obama administration needs to make up its mind: Is Ahmed Wali Karzai a menace or an asset?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Rights Stuff
Has Obama's campaign to be the anti-Bush in the Middle East gone too far?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Thunder in Oslo
The tug of war over human rights in the age of Obama.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Scenes From an Arab Classroom
The surprising lessons my class in Abu Dhabi taught me.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How’s That Appeasement Working Out?
Barack Obama's Sudan strategy is more sophisticated than his detractors will admit. But that doesn't mean it is working.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Karzai Dilemma
Afghanistan's president is far from the country's only problem. But he just might be its most intractable one.