The year 2014 was a tipping point for the Barack Obama Administration--that was the year when it strove to forge a legacy of the Obarna era but came up against challenges arising from major changes that were taking pl...
Obama's Middle East policy comes to its epilogue with the end of his 8-year White House tenancy. An aspirational speech in Cairo in 2009 and the shrinkage of US military in the Middle East in 2017 are the bookends to...
As he approaches the end of his presidency, Barack Obama, who -successfully handled thaws in US-Myanmar and US-Cuba relations,facilitated the signing of a nuclear deal with Iran and promised to "offer an outstretched...
Barack Obama’s election as the 44th U.S.president opened a new chapter in the country’s history of race relations,but as his second term comes to an end,black-white tensions have resurfaced 50 years after the civil ...
The U.S.healthcare initiative led by President Obama made progress this year toward its three major goals—extending medical insurance coverage to more Americans,curbing stratospheric healthcare spending that was appr...
After the U.S.mid-term elections in November 2014,the Obama administration entered a'lame-duck'period.As the Republicans have controlled both the House of Representatives and the Senate,public opinion generally holds ...
This paper deals with US-Libya relations in the context of the Arab Spring. The US foreign policy and its contradictions both in Libya and the Arab World are critically examined. The specific international relations i...
Since the beginning of his second term, Barack Obama has made some adjustment to US strategy of rebalance to the Asia-Pacific.The adjustment is aimed at adapting the US to the new features in the post-flnancial crisis...
How do we persuade Pyongyang to scrap its nuclear weapons program? How do we stop it from behaving provocatively? Obama has been struggling with these questions. In his first term, Obama adopted a policy of strateg...