Obama's visit marks a new special relationship of the super-realists | Jacob Weisberg (Guardian)
With a shared pragmatism on foreign policy, the president and Mr Cameron may have a good deal in common Few presidents arrive in office with large plans around foreign affairs. Yet most live to see their reputations defined by it. For Barack Obama, whose time in office coincides with a series of tectonic shifts in global structure ? the Arab revolutions, the relative decline of American power, the rise of China ? that pattern shows every sign of holding. But what kind of foreign policy leader is he? How Obama thinks about America's role in the world turns out to be one of the thornier questions about his presidency. A briefing for David Cameron in advance of this week's state visit to Great Britain, the first by an American president for eight years, might begin with the following thumbnail profile: Obama's views fit neatly into none of the conventional categories like "realist" or "idealist," "interventionist" or "isolationist." At the time he began his presidential campaign, less than four years ago, Obama had no discernible approach to foreign affairs. He had been an Illinois state legislator, a professor of constitutional law and briefly a US senator who ...Share With Friends: | | Politics - Top Stories News, RSS and RSS Feed via Feedzilla.
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