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 [...]
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A View from the Outside: Assessing Obama’s First Year as President
by Sandra ScanlonTuesday, January 26th, 2010
Tags: Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, climate change, Cold War, Copenhagen, Europe, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, iran, iraq, Israel, Nobel Peace Prize, State of the Union, Taliban
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The State Department Wants You! (or does it?)
by Molly WoodMonday, November 23rd, 2009
In October 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama promised a new approach to American foreign policy. “It’s time to make diplomacy a top priority,” he announced. “Instead of shuttering consulates, we need to open them in the tough and hopeless corners of the world. Instead of having more Americans serving in military bands than the diplomatic [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, iraq, U.S. Foreign Service, U.S. State Department
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Weekly Digest: 11-3-09
by Nick DucoteTuesday, November 3rd, 2009
The mess that is Afghanistan just got messier for Washington. Abdullah’s withdrawal from the presidential runoff leaves Hamid Karzai in power but without legitimacy. [more]
There is a new humanitarian crisis unfolding in Somalia, and the United States is partly to blame. Despite sending $2 million and 40 tons of arms and ammunition to the country’s [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Foreign aid, Hamid Karzai, Hilary Clinton, Israel, Palestine, Somalia, space
Posted in Afghanistan War: 2001-present, Africa, Around the Web, Barack Obama administration: 2009-present, Culture and international relations, Foreign aid, Horn of Africa, Ideology, International Economic Relations, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Post-colonial Third World, State Department, Uncategorized | No Comments »