Barack Obama’s run for the presidency was observed by European publics perhaps more than any US election in recent history. Students, for whom the presidency of Bill Clinton was barely a memory and little more than a footnote introducing the Bush era, debated the relative merits of a Clinton or Obama nomination largely in terms [...]
Imperialism/Colonization
A View from the Outside: Assessing Obama’s First Year as President
by Sandra ScanlonTuesday, January 26th, 2010
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Weekly Digest – 12/7/09
by Nick DucoteMonday, December 7th, 2009
If President Obama is looking for something that transcends the national divisions over healthcare reform and Afghanistan policy, he might try isolationism. [more]
The Afghan surge makes military action against Iran less likely — and refutes the thesis that America wages war in the Muslim world [...]
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Afghanistan and the Chinese Civil War
by William StueckThursday, November 12th, 2009
Any political historian will tell you that government decisionmakers frequently use historical analogies in making up their minds and that, more often than not, they do so badly. And Kimber Quinney reminded us in her thoughtful November 9 commentary that historians are not immune to employing such analogies either, or in doing so badly.
Yet as [...]
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