Martin Indyck on Obama's Foreign Policy: Prospects for the Second Year

"This President dominates foreign policy in Washington," said Martin Indyk at this year's Richard C. Holbrooke Lecture, on May 5. "You have to go as far back to Richard Nixon to find a President who was so directly involved in determining the course of American foreign affairs." Indyk, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, has seen his share of Washington's varied configurations determining foreign policy: former Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Indyk served twice as the United States Ambassador to Israel (1995-97 and 2000-01), as Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs (1997-2000), and prior to that as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council (1993-95). Indyk's lecture tonight looked back on Obama's ambitious first year -- and reasoned how the second promises to be both more challenging and, one hopes, given a host of multifaceted threats, successful. For the full lecture, visit the Academy's media archive.

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