Richard N. Haass

The for­eign pol­i­cy de­bate be­tween Rom­ney and Oba­ma con­tained lit­tle de­bate and lit­tle for­eign pol­i­cy.

The in­abil­i­ty to reach in­ter­na­tion­al con­sen­sus may lead West­ern na­tions to form their own ‘coali­tion of the will­ing’.

Do any of Oba­ma’s jus­ti­fi­ca­tions for ex­tend­ing the war in Afghanistan make sense?

Con­sid­er­ing the eco­nom­ic pow­er that Asia has amassed, has the US been fo­cus­ing on the ‘wrong Ori­ent’?

Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001, was a ter­ri­ble tragedy by any mea­sure, but it was not a his­tor­i­cal turn­ing point, ar­gues au­thor.

Ter­ror­ism will not end with bin Laden’s death with­out sig­nif­i­cant po­lit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic change in the Mid­dle East.

Egypt’s Up­ris­ing is only the first in many steps,the chal­lenge ahead is to build a so­ci­ety on fair prin­ci­ples.