Terms of Engagement
List of Terms of Engagement articles
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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Country First
After a turbulent decade abroad, the Republican Party turns inward.
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ALI LINH/AFP/Getty Images Game of Thrones
Morocco is the Arab world's last chance to prove that monarchs can reform their countries without getting thrown out of them.
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Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Warsaw on the Nile
How do you get the new Arab democracies' economies in order? Look to Eastern Europe.
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JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images Friend Request
Barack Obama has been saying the right things about democracy in the Arab world. Bahrain, a key U.S. ally, will be the test of whether he really means them.
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BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images Leaving With Honor
After Osama bin Laden's death, Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever -- and for once, that's a good thing.
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John Angelillo-Pool/Getty Images Freedom From Fear
Now that he's accomplished the central aim of George W. Bush's foreign policy, Barack Obama can finally get started on his own.
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BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images Hope Dies Last in Damascus
Will Bashar al-Assad's brutal crackdown on his citizens finally put an end to a decade of wishful thinking about the Syrian president?
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MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images Second Thoughts
How much does Richard Goldstone's Gaza retraction matter?
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Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images Khyber Impasse
How long can the United States and Pakistan keep pretending that they actually have any interests in common?
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John Moore/Getty Images Good News
How the revolution transformed Egypt's media.
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SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images A Moral Adventure
Is Barack Obama as much of a foreign-policy realist as he thinks he is?
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ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images The Hard Part
What happens if the Libyan rebels actually win?
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ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images The Myth of the Useful Dictator
In propping up autocrats in countries like Yemen and Bahrain, the United States has long weighed its interests against its principles. Is it a false choice?
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ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images Stepping In
Libya doesn't meet any of the criteria for a humanitarian intervention. We should do it anyway.
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SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images Cairo 1.5
The Arab world that Barack Obama addressed in his famous speech two years ago is history. It's time for him to speak to the new one.
