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The ‘Obama Doctrine’: An Unsentimental Appraisal
February 04, 2013 / Daniel Twining
Foreign Policy
The following article originally appeared in Foreign Policy. Click here to read the full article.
The United States, protected by two oceans and with a global range of allies and interests, has found for a century that it must go abroad to shape and lead a dangerous world. But President Barack Obama seems, in some respects, to prefer to stay home. Whereas George W. Bush's foreign policy was maximalist, Obama's is minimalist. A foreign policy assessment only halfway through his presidency is no doubt unfair -- he may yet vanquish Iran's nuclear weapons program, put an overdue end to Syria's bloody civil war, stand down Chinese aggression in Asian waters, and oversee a historic wave of trade liberalization. But he has not yet. The Obama Doctrine appears less ambitious.
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Daniel Twining is Senior Fellow for Asia at the German Marshall Fund working on the rise of Asia and its implications for the West.
