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The Changing Named Obama

Author(s): Octavian Manea, Iulia Serafimescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: leveraged superpower; neoconservatorism; wilsonianism; responsibility to protect; unilateralism vs. effective multilateralism

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to briefly review the major foreign policy consequences generated on both sides of the Atlantic by the election of the new president of the United States-Barrack Obama. What kind of a foreign policy should the U.S. put forward? Which is the role of America in this brave new multipolar world? What should be the European answer? We argue that in a time of scarce economic and military resources, a time of strategic overextension, a neoconservative foreign policy is definitely not an option. The alternative seems to be the returning to the liberal institutionalism and the multilateralism of the 1990s as a way of doing business in the world: through the international institutions.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 131-132
  • Page Range: 103-110
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian