How Terrorism Has Grown Since 9/11
Fifteen years on from 9/11, we must look at how terrorism has evolved into various forms.
Time to Draw Down in Afghanistan
After nearly nine years of war, continued or increased U.S. involvement in Afghanistan isn't likely to yield lasting improvements that would be commensurate in any way with the investment of American blood and treasure. It is time to scale down our ambitions there and both reduce and redirect what we do.
Haass: Must Fix Failed States for Global Stability
Global instability in the 21st century will come not from superpowers but from failed states.
Haass: Regime Change Is the Only Way to Stop Iran
Why we can no longer remain on the sidelines in the struggle for regime change in Iran.
Haass: Former Bush Aide's Dilemma Over Iraq
You try to make the best of an executive decision you think is wrong. But there's a limit. A former Bush aide looks back.
The Two Bushes' Iraq Wars: Haass Book Excerpt
An insider's view from an advisor who served in both administrations.
Haass: Why Obama Should Lift the Cuba Embargo
Things are changing in Cuba, however slowly. The United States should be a part of shaping their direction.
Richard Haass: Obama Needs to Talk to Damascus Now
Damascus is signaling that it's ready to negotiate a separate peace with Israel. It won't happen without America's help. The silent treatment has to stop.
How to Integrate China Into the Global Order
The single biggest challenge for the new president will be to get Beijing to play by the rules. Here's how.
Haass: We must get China into the tent
The single most important challenge for the new administration—one with the potential to shape the 21st century—is China. As goes China, so go 1.3 billion men, women and children—one out of every five people on the planet.China's economy is now roughly half the size of America's; in three decades, the two are likely to be about equal.
Foreign Policy for the Future American President
MEMORANDUMTO: The president-electRE: Foreign policyFROM: Richard N. Haass, President of the Council on Foreign RelationsThere are only two and a half months—76 days, to be precise— between Election Day and your Inauguration, and you will need every one of them to get ready for the world you will inherit.
Haass: How Obama and McCain See the World
The debate shouldn't be a chance to play gotcha. What the candidates know about the world is less important than how they think about it.
Don't Kick Russia out of the G8
Kicking Russia out of the G8 will solve nothing. We need to rope it into the international system.
The New Middle East
As the Iraq war helps bring the American era to a close, a new order will begin to emerge in the region.
Let's Not Play The Oil Game
No doubt it's a sign of the times. Today's war games have more to do with the falling supplies and rising price of oil than with tanks and armored personnel carriers rolling across borders.