The sentiment that something is wrong with US foreign policy is not new
to Americans. Arguably that feeling was one reason why US voters decided
to elect a young Senator in 2008 who vowed to do things differently and
end America's two protracted wars.
And while the debate about the future of America's role in the world had been simmering since then, it took the recent eruption of violence in the Middle East and Ukraine coupled with an article by the preeminent neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan as well as Hillary Clinton's criticism of Barack Obama to really get the discussion going.
Essentially the argument circles around the question whether the US can and should be the world's decisive superpower in the future and whether Obama's retrenchment of US power is or should be the new normal.
Kagan, who didn't respond to a request for an interview, fears that retrenchment of US power could become the new standard for America's foreign policy. Notwithstanding the rise of China or changes in the global power structure, Kagan believes the US can retain its role as the sole superpower and shape the world accordingly. The problem, he argues, is that Americans are becoming increasingly skeptical about the outsized role of their country.
Read more: In search of: The US role in the world | World | DW.DE | 20.08.2014
And while the debate about the future of America's role in the world had been simmering since then, it took the recent eruption of violence in the Middle East and Ukraine coupled with an article by the preeminent neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan as well as Hillary Clinton's criticism of Barack Obama to really get the discussion going.
Essentially the argument circles around the question whether the US can and should be the world's decisive superpower in the future and whether Obama's retrenchment of US power is or should be the new normal.
Kagan, who didn't respond to a request for an interview, fears that retrenchment of US power could become the new standard for America's foreign policy. Notwithstanding the rise of China or changes in the global power structure, Kagan believes the US can retain its role as the sole superpower and shape the world accordingly. The problem, he argues, is that Americans are becoming increasingly skeptical about the outsized role of their country.
Read more: In search of: The US role in the world | World | DW.DE | 20.08.2014
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