Limited Achievements Obama’s Foreign Policy, by Zaki Laïdi
Limited Achievements : Obama’s Foreign Policy By Zaki Laïdi Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Palgrave Macmillan, September 2012 Barack Obama is inspired by a realist vision of the global order. His ambition is to preserve America’s great power status and make it acceptable to the rest of the world. He no longer wants his country to serve as the world’s policeman. However, he has no intention of letting another country displace the United States. His scope of action lies between these two limits: he has no grand design, nor is he willing [...]