The Obama Moment

The Obama Moment: European and American perspectives

Edited by Álvaro de Vasconcelos and Marcin Zaborowski, European Union Institute for Security Studies

Barack Obama’s approach to foreign policy has nothing in common with that of George W. Bush. US foreign policy has changed radically under President Obama, and the radical departure from the confrontational style of conducting foreign policy that characterised the Bush era throws a window of opportunity wide open for the EU ambition of a world governed by effective multilateralism – a notion that echoes the ‘assertive multilateralism’ of the Clinton years – to see the light of day. The nature as well as the scope of this radical change, both when it comes to issues and to individual countries and regions, must be fully understood if the European Union wants to keep the window open and realise its long-held ambition of shaping a ‘better world’. Read more…

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