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Bending History - Barack Obama's Foreign Policy (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Bending History - Barack Obama's Foreign Policy (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Brookings FOCUS Book
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"By the time of Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th president
of the United States, he had already developed an ambitious foreign
policy vision. By his own account, he sought to bend the arc of
history toward greater justice, freedom, and peace; within a year
he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, largely for that promise. In
Bending History, Martin Indyk, Kenneth Lieberthal, and Michael
O'Hanlon measure Obama not only against the record of his
predecessors and the immediate challenges of the day, but also
against his own soaring rhetoric and inspiring goals. Bending
History assesses the considerable accomplishments as well as the
failures and seeks to explain what has happened. Obama's best work
has been on major and pressing foreign policy
challenges-counterterrorism policy, including the daring raid that
eliminated Osama bin Laden; the ""reset"" with Russia; managing the
increasingly significant relationship with China; and handling the
rogue states of Iran and North Korea. Policy on resolving the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, however, has reflected serious flaws
in both strategy and execution. Afghanistan policy has been plagued
by inconsistent messaging and teamwork. On important ""softer""
security issues-from energy and climate policy to problems in
Africa and Mexico-the record is mixed. As for his early aspiration
to reshape the international order, according greater roles and
responsibilities to rising powers, Obama's efforts have been
well-conceived but of limited effectiveness. On issues of secondary
importance, Obama has been disciplined in avoiding fruitless
disputes (as with Chavez in Venezuela and Castro in Cuba) and
insisting that others take the lead (as with Qaddafi in Libya).
Notwithstanding several missteps, he has generally managed well the
complex challenges of the Arab awakenings, striving to strike the
right balance between U.S. values and interests. The authors see
Obama's foreign policy to date as a triumph of discipline and
realism over ideology. He has been neither the transformative
beacon his devotees have wanted, nor the weak apologist for America
that his critics allege. They conclude that his grand strategy for
promoting American interests in a tumultuous world may only now be
emerging, and may yet be curtailed by conflict with Iran. Most of
all, they argue that he or his successor will have to embrace U.S.
economic renewal as the core foreign policy and national security
challenge of the future. "
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