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Obama's Last Chance
In: The national interest, Heft 134, S. 11
ISSN: 0884-9382
Even Pres Obama's dwindling residue of faithfuls and retainers should not wager on his rewriting the history books in his closing two years. A presidency that began with lofty expectations has devolved into steadily defining them down, at home and abroad. The result has been prolonged paralysis. Obama flowers in abstract intellectual discourse, but has been defiantly oblivious to hardheaded strategy. And strategy is the essence of power. Obama still has the time and the power to stop the terrorists about to lodge themselves in the Middle East, from whence they will threaten the rest of the world. The US needs to strengthen its military presence in the region. The purpose is not to threaten China; it is to reassure all parties that differences are not going to be settled by military force. US power should be deployed to convey a calming effect and to reassure the region that no state is going to be intimidated into subservience. Adapted from the source document.
The Right Play
In: FP, Heft 200
ISSN: 0015-7228
Leading from behind, a quote from an unnamed Obama administration official highlighted by New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza, has been vehemently and repeatedly trashed in the Washington scramble to redefine US power in the 21st century, becoming fodder for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign and a rallying cry for neo-conservatives. But the concept behind the phrase deserves another look. Pres Barack Obama seems to have come to the same conclusion and already is leading in a new way -- not from behind, but as a partner. When it was coined in April 2011, the phrase rested on indisputable, if uncomfortable, emerging realities: Americans had soured on playing Lone Ranger to a hopelessly messy world. Going forward, the US has no choice but to embrace the sound underpinnings of "leading from behind." The blunt truth is that Americans won't finance Lone Rangerism, and it wouldn't work anyway. Other countries won't just follow along with Washington. Adapted from the source document.
The elusive Obama doctrine
In: The national interest, Heft 121, S. 18-28
ISSN: 0884-9382
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Does Libya Represent a New Wilsonism?
In: The national interest, Heft 118, S. 40-50
ISSN: 0884-9382
The article discusses whether the 2011 U.S. military intervention in Libya, which helped depose Libya ruler Muammar el-Qadaffi, represented a shift to Wilsonism in U.S. foreign policy. The author contends that humanitarian issues will not determine U.S. foreign policy, such as a potential U.S. war with Iran or a military intervention in Syria's 2011 revolution. Adapted from the source document.
The Lie That Screwed Up 50 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy
In: FP, Heft 196
ISSN: 0015-7228
US Pres John F. Kennedy's skillful management of the Cuban missile crisis, 50 years ago this autumn, has been elevated into the central myth of the Cold War. At its core is the tale that, by virtue of US military superiority and his steely will, Kennedy forced Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to capitulate and remove the nuclear missiles he had secretly deployed to Cuba. Kennedy's victory in the messy and inconclusive Cold War naturally came to dominate the politics of US foreign policy. What people came to understand about the Cuban missile crisis -- that JFK succeeded without giving an inch -- implanted itself in policy deliberations and political debate, spoken or unspoken. It's there now, all these decades later, in worries over making any concessions to Iran over nuclear weapons or to the Taliban over their role in Afghanistan. Adapted from the source document.
We bow to the God bipartisanship
In: The national interest, Heft 116, S. 18-24
ISSN: 0884-9382
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INTERVIEWS: Fashioning a Realistic Strategy for the Twenty-First Century; "Smart" power and "soft" power have become buzzwords to describe how a state can exert influence short of using force. The Fletcher Forum interviewed Leslie Gelb
In: The Fletcher forum of world affairs, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 5-8
ISSN: 1046-1868
GDP now matters more than force: a U.S. foreign policy for the age of economic power
In: Foreign affairs, Band 89, Heft 6, S. 35-43
ISSN: 0015-7120
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Necessity, choise, and common sense: a policy for a bewildering world
In: Foreign affairs, Band 88, Heft 3, S. 56-72
ISSN: 0015-7120
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The World Still Needs a Leader
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 108, Heft 721, S. 387-389
ISSN: 0011-3530
The World Still Needs a Leader
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 108, Heft 721, S. 387-389
ISSN: 1944-785X
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Last Train from Baghdad
In: Foreign affairs: an American quarterly review, Band 85, Heft 4, S. 160
ISSN: 2327-7793
POLITIQUE ET SOCIÉTÉ - Mention bien - Irak: la solution sunnite
In: Jeune Afrique l'intelligent: hebdomadaire politique et économique international ; édition internationale, Heft 2327-2328, S. 45
ISSN: 0021-6089