Unless Obama comes up with a foreign policy that goes beyond the Austrian prince’s rigid multilateralism, he too might not end up seeing the world clearly.
via Barack von Metternich – By Gustavo de las Casas | Foreign Policy.
I just wrote a paper on Metternich’s idealism last semester, pretty much concluding what this article does!
Posts Tagged ‘foreign policy’
30 Jun
Barack von Metternich
1 Feb
The Israel lobby
Just finished skimming through The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by the (famous realists) Mearsheimer and Walt. They ask why U.S. support of Israel is so unconditional and enormeous compared to U.S. support to other democratic states, and find that this support cannot be justified on neither moral nor security grounds alone, but must [...]
18 Jan
Norwegian interests – foreign policy for a globalised world
I’ve had the pleasure of reading Norwegian Interests – Foreign Policy for a globalised world, a book resulting for a Norwegian MFA project aiming to find out what Norwegian interests are, and if they should be redefined. The final result will take the form of a report to the Storting (parliament) in a few months.
It [...]
