Obama & international relations
Ross Douthat evaluates Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and explains that Obama’s approach to foreign policy draws on elements of competing schools of international relations:
In a sense, this was one of the clearer statements of foreign policy principle that Obama has delivered to date: An extended defense of using realist means in the service of liberal internationalist ends. It’s an approach that fits at least some of the challenges we face, and the turn toward modesty and pragmatism, in particular — toward the pursuit of “a more practical, attainable peace
-Luke
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