America’s Middle East Challenges

The potential gains from reorienting American foreign policy toward the Asia-Pacific region were fully evident in November. But in the Middle East, where the stakes seem to rise with every passing week, the US has gone silent.

DENVER – The potential gains from reorienting American foreign policy toward the Asia-Pacific region were fully evident in November. President Barack Obama followed a successful visit to the APEC forum in China with a fruitful stopover in Myanmar to bolster the country’s political transition, before finishing at the G-20’s remarkably productive meeting in Brisbane.

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