Stephen M. Walt on Obama's Foreign Policy and the End of the American Era

About the Speaker:

Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Rene Belfer Professor of International Relations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago.

Professor Walt was a Resident Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and he has also served as a consultant for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the National Defense University. He presently serves on the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, International Relations, and the Journal of Cold War Studies.

Professor Walt is the author of The Origins of Alliances (1987), Revolution and War (1996), Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (2005), and, with co-author J.J. Mearsheimer, The Israel Lobby (2007). He writes regularly online at walt.foreignpolicy.com.


About the Speech:

Professor Walt will give a keynote address on Obama's Foreign Policy and the End of the American Era.

This event is co-hosted by the IIEA and UCD's Clinton Institute for American Studies.

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[aon10003]

The end of the American era isnt a act of god or of nature. Its a choice of either go back to American basic values or to go on with Friedmans neoconservative economic.

Your choice.

[LeonardMichaelis]

It's very unfortunate that only 16 people (at the point of time I write this message) have been watched this great piece of information, where when we think about some dumb Reality TV videos, there are probably hundreds of thousands watching it. So, if the majority is getting dumber, then also the rulers/presidents of all countries need to be dumber thus they can correlate correspondingly to their voters. I think this is how we explain a president like GWBush or Obama.

[gobuddyboy]

Obama is now responsible for more drone attacks on pakistan than bush. That is destablizing pakistan, maybe thats what washington wants. Obama didnt close getmo. Obama waited for 4 years before pulling troops outof iraq, but there is still a big usa military presence in iraq. Obama went in to libya, now syria, and wants Iran. If obama is not the anti-christ he are to be one.

[trance2307]

Insightful as always, Steve. Great talk.

[exmuslimNfree]

Islam is False

Religion is man-made

God doesn't write books

Exmuslim N free

[jpp3g]

@LeonardMichaelis

I would suggest, based on your message, you read Brave New World, by Huxley, or Fahrenheit 451, by Bradbury. Huxley's novel is based on a society which is bombarded by trinkets and socially engineered to be a predetermined class based society, and Bradbury's a society in which books are burned and reality television rules and is an extension of one's family. You've probably already read one of the two but if you haven't you should.