Obama’s Underachieving Foreign Policy

Zaki Laïdi (1)

1 CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS)

First lines : PARIS – To evaluate an American president’s foreign-policy performance after one term is challenging, given the complex diplomatic and strategic environment and significant domestic constraints that confront every US president. Nevertheless, in advance of November’s presidential election, it is important to distinguish the forces that have shaped Barack Obama’s foreign policy, and to assess his handling of them.

Domains: Political science

Zaki Laïdi. Obama’s Underachieving Foreign Policy. 2012. ⟨hal-03473951⟩