Jeffrey Goldberg has written a fascinating essay on US President Obama’s foreign policy for The Atlantic. Goldberg traces the issues facing the US and how Obama has tried to thread a very tiny needle: how to maintain the US-constructed world order while at the same time reducing the global commitments of the country. Goldberg has some great insights into Obama’s advisers and their roles in foreign policy and how Obama has tried to adhere to his essential position that the US remains fundamentally over-committed given its limited resources. In the same issue Andrew McGill has compiled many of Obama’s statements on foreign policy to give a mosaic of his perspectives on different global problems.
Few Americans have head of Frauke Petry. She is the leader of a German political party, the Alternative for Germany. The party started out as a eurosceptic party, but has morphed into an anti-immigrant party as the country has had to confront the influx of refugees from all over the world. The party has achieved representation in several of the state parliaments, accruing up to 20% of the vote in some of the elections. It is hard to tell how lasting the party’s success will be, but, at this time, it represents a small, but potent, threat to Chancellor Merkel.
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