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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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Weekly Digest – 10/19/09
by Nick DucoteMonday, October 19th, 2009
As the U.S. postpones a decision on Afghanistan, Gerald Posner reports on a new secret weapon in the arsenal of the Taliban and Al Qaeda: getting the Army addicted to their cheap heroin. [more]
President George H.W. Bush thought that after the victory in the Gulf war we had “kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for [...]
Tags: bipolar, counterterrorism, Darfur, genocide, multipolar, Sudan, Vietnam, Vietnam syndrome, War on Terror
Posted in Around the Web, Barack Obama administration: 2009-present, Early Cold War: 1945-1961, George W. Bush administration: 2001-2008, Horn of Africa, International Organizations, Internationl law and treaties, John Kennedy administration: 1961-1963, Late Cold War: 1961-1991, Lyndon Johnson administration: 1963-1969, Military affaris, Nuclear policy & WMD, Policymaking--International, Post-9/11: 2001-present, Presidency, Public Opinion, Richard Nixon administration: 1969-1974, Sudan, Terrorism, Trade policy | No Comments »
Weekly Digest – 10/12/09
by Nick DucoteMonday, October 12th, 2009
President Obama’s only real diplomatic accomplishment so far has been to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy from unilateral bullying to multilateral listening and cooperating. That’s important, to be sure, but not nearly enough. The Prize is really more of Booby Prize for Obama’s predecessor. [more]
On Monday, the Independent reported that [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dollar, Euro, Hillary Clinton, International Space Station, NASA, Nobel prize, patriotism, US economy, war
Posted in Around the Web, Barack Obama administration: 2009-present, Domestic politics, Early Cold War: 1945-1961, Financial Policies, Harry Truman administration: 1945-1953, Imperialism: 1898-1913, International Economic Relations, International Organizations, International Trade and Economics, Iraq War: 2003-present, Korean War: 1950-1953, Late Cold War: 1961-1991, Lyndon Johnson administration: 1963-1969, Military affaris, Post-9/11: 2001-present, Presidency, United Kingdom, World War I: 1914-1918, World War II: 1939-1945 | No Comments »