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The Limits and Potential of Obama's Foreign Policy: Living Up To Expectations

Robin Niblett, January 2009

The World Today, Volume 65, Number 1

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The transition to the new United States Presidency of Barack Obama has awakened huge expectations internationally for a change in the direction of American foreign policy. How realistic are these international, as well as US expectations? What scope for foreign policy action will he have at the outset of his administration?