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Analysis: Obama: Peacemaker or Vigilante?

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Obama: Peacemaker or Vigilante?

01/10/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Analysis, Obama: Peacemaker or Vigilante?

Mukul Devichand asks what President Obama has actually achieved on the world stage.

Mukul Devichand asks what, when set against the expectations of his hopeful supporters in 2008, President Obama has actually achieved on the world stage.

When Barack Obama stood before a 200,000-strong crowd in Berlin in 2008 his declaration that "now is the time to build new bridges across the globe" was met with jubilation by a crowd which believed the future American president would pursue a gentler foreign policy, completely unlike that of George W Bush. This liberal enthusiasm extended to the Nobel Committee, which awarded Obama its Peace Prize in his first year of office. The man himself accepted the Prize, and the warm feelings, but did he ever intend to pursue the sort of foreign policy which his well-wishers in Europe and on the American left expected of him? And what - when set against their expectations, or indeed his own promises - has President Obama actually achieved on the world stage?

Interviewees include: 

Bruce Riedel, former adviser on foreign policy to Barack Obama
Ann Marie Slaughter, former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department under Barack Obama
Daniel Drezner, Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
James Fallows, The Atlantic magazine
Gregory Johnsen, Near East Studies Scholar, Princeton University
Jameel Jaffer, lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union


Presenter: Mukul Devichand
Producer: Richard Knight.

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