Barack Obama foreign policy

Over the next four years, President Obama will face a number of foreign policy issues, as regime change continues in the Middle East and as the United States withdraws from Afghanistan, but one of the Obama Administration’s most complex challenges is navigating our complicated relationship with China. Donald Gross, senior associate at the Center for […]

At this weekend’s conference of the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee, President Barack Obama reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security. During his remarks to the pro-Israel lobbying group, the President restated that, with regards to ensuring Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon, all options are on the table. The President also […]

President Obama makes some revealing comments over tensions between Israel and Iran. In a pre-Super Bowl interview with NBC, the president said Israel has not made a decision to strike Iran even as worries grow Tehran is building a nuclear weapon. However, the president wouldn’t say if the U.S. would be privy to knowledge of […]

As America faces an ongoing recession, the Middle East faces revolution and turmoil, and the president faces what could be an incredibly difficult re-election campaign, we couldn’t think of a better person to talk current events with than Nobel Peace Prize winner and 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter. Carter is the author […]

President Obama has been in wide-ranging talks in London with the British prime minister, David Cameron. Both leaders restated their commitment to maintaining the pressure on Libya and to ensure democracy in North Africa. At issue is also the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Britain has said that it might support a Palestinian declaration of independence, something […]