Fatigue or Repair? Notes on United States Foreign Policy Under Obama, por Mark S. Langevin
20/08/2010 Deixe um comentário
The eagle has not crashed landed,[1] despite the expensive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Facing historic domestic and foreign policy challenges, U.S. President Barack Obama has largely followed his campaign’s most prominent foreign policy prescriptions at a time when most U.S. citizens are increasingly looking inward. As Pecequilo and Batista (2009) note, former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney and others associated with the Neo-conservative movement harassed the new administration as long as accumulating reality allowed, eventually receding as President Obama demonstrated a strong grasp over foreign policy and national defense. It did not take long for the neo-cons and many in the Republican party to recognize that the Obama administration would succeed or fail not because of foreign policy, but by its responses to the domestic economic crisis, mounting unemployment, and the storm swirling around the much anticipated, but controversial health care reform. Saiba mais