Terms of Engagement
James Traub is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of, most recently, The Freedom Agenda. "Terms of Engagement," his column for ForeignPolicy.com, runs weekly.

Nuclear Options

Obama's atomic agenda is finally looking like more than just fantasy. Now for the hard part.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 30, 2010

The Accidental Domestic President

For Barack Obama, the world will have to wait.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 23, 2010

Our Money in Pakistan

Richard Holbrooke is getting serious blowback for his efforts to radically reshape U.S. aid programs in South Asia's most dangerous state. But maybe he's onto something.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 17, 2010

Surge Incapacity

Let's face it: America just isn't very good at nation-building.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 8, 2010

What Happened to New York's Moxie?

Trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan would have showed the terrorists that Americans are not afraid. Eight and a half years after 9/11, we’re not there yet.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 2, 2010

Does Obama Have His Own Freedom Agenda Or Not?

Democracy promotion after Bush.

BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Terms of Engagement

Obama’s top advisors think they can get results from dictators and autocrats without making odious moral choices. Time to prove it, says James Traub in his new weekly column for Foreign Policy.

BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 19, 2010