Anne-Marie Slaughter
Overcautious Obama
PRINCETON – In this election season in the United States, President Barack Obama is two men in one. The Obama of the Cairo speech of 2009, w…
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As the US presidential election campaign heats up, Republican challenger Mitt Romney is increasingly contesting President Barack Obama’s foreign-policy record. Just how successful has Obama’s foreign policy been?
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Christopher R. Hill
The US Candidates’ Non-Debate
DENVER – For the uninitiated, especially foreign observers, the United States’ presidential election campaign can seem like an epic narrativ…
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Joseph S. Nye
The Obama Doctrine’s First Term
ASPEN – Public-opinion polls in the United States indicate a close presidential election in November. While President Barack Obama outpolls …
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Ian Buruma
American Funk
NEW YORK – The eccentric Bengali intellectual Nirad C. Chaudhuri once explained the end of the British Raj in India as a case of “funk,” or …
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Harold Brown
Hands Off Syria?
WASHINGTON, DC – More than any of the previous events in the Arab Spring, Syria’s turmoil has presented serious difficulties for Western pol…
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Shlomo Ben-Ami
Israel versus America versus Iran
TEL AVIV – Israel’s concern about the specter of a nuclear Iran has now degenerated into a crisis of confidence concerning the United States…
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Brahma Chellaney
China’s Made-in-America Success Story
NEW DELHI – America’s strategy in Asia for more than a century has sought a stable balance of power to prevent the rise of any hegemon. Yet …
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Jagdish Bhagwati
Trading In Hate
NEW YORK – The massacre in Norway in July 2011 and the recent attack on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, were the work of right-wing e…
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Shashi Tharoor
India’s American Relations
NEW DELHI – With America’s presidential election looming, perhaps its most striking aspect from an Indian point of view is that no one in Ne…
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Anne-Marie Slaughter
Obama the Statesman
PRINCETON – The world may see Barack Obama as a leader weakened by the intractability of American domestic politics, but, as the 2012 presid…
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