| ID | 116643 |
| Title Proper | Iran will determine Obama's legacy |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Fitzpatrick, Mark |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Most of them having breathed a sigh of relief at the outcome of the US presidential election, legions of America-watchers around the world now wonder how President Barack Obama will use his renewed mandate in the foreign policy arena. They are acutely aware that foreign-policy issues played little role in the election campaign. Even the presidential candidates' debate that was supposed to bear on global matters pivoted back to domestic economic and education issues. No foreign-policy initiatives were enunciated during the campaign. The logical conclusion is that Obama will carry on as he has been in the foreign-policy realm, avoiding impossible issues such as the Israeli-Palestine quagmire and managing inescapable problems through the application of reasoned pragmatism. Knowing first-hand the aphorism attributed to Harold Macmillan of how it is 'events, dear boy, events' that blow governments off course, his policies are likely to be reactive rather than proactive. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 54, No.6; Dec-Jan 2012: p.41-48 |
| Key Words | Iran ; US Presidential Election ; Barack Obama ; Foreign Policy ; Global Issue ; Climate Change ; Nuclear Weapons Free World ; United States ; Nuclear Terrorism ; NPT ; CTBT ; FMCT |