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[Hillary] Clinton has been a loyal, very effective secretary of state, who has used her star power in a useful way for Obama, and has left her mark on minor issues such as the Internet or integrating development policies better into foreign policy...But the political situation has been such that she has largely been kept on a leash.

November 2, 2012, Justin Vaïsse, AFP

U.S. Foreign Policy After the Presidential Election: What Should Europeans Expect?

October 2012, Clara M. O'Donnell

"No Bourgeoisie, No Democracy": Obama's Democratization Policy in the Middle East and North Africa (Nordafrika verdankt seine Revolutionen wesentlich den USA Obamas Genie)

October 25, 2012, Jonathan Laurence

The Foreign Policy Debate: Key Issues and Omissions

October 23, 2012, Justin Vaïsse, Feng Wang, Steven Pifer, Tanvi Madan and Diana Villiers Negroponte

For U.S. Presidential Candidates, Foreign Policy Is Domestic Policy

October 23, 2012, Robert Kagan

In the next several years the U.S. has to make some very expensive decisions about how to modernize the legs of the U.S. strategic triad [bombers, submarine and land-based missiles]. For example, replacing the Trident submarine will cost, according to the Navy, $6 to $7 billion a piece.

October 22, 2012, Steven Pifer, NBC News

Le monde de Romney, c'est le monde de Bush qui n'a pas beaucoup changé.

October 22, 2012, Justin Vaïsse, La Tribune

Disarming the World

October 18, 2012, Steven Pifer

Barack Obama et sa politique étrangère (2008-2012)

2012, Justin Vaïsse

Russia's Decision to Stop USAID

September 19, 2012, Fiona Hill

How 9/11 Changed How Americans View The World

September 10, 2012, Robert Kagan

Neoconservatives Down But Not Out in U.S. Politics

February 13, 2012, Justin Vaïsse

The Importance of U.S. Military Might Shouldn’t Be Underestimated

February 2, 2012, Robert Kagan

Obama's Foreign Policy

January 23, 2012, Robert Kagan

Not Fade Away: Against the Myth of American Decline

January 17, 2012, Robert Kagan

Big Changes in the Middle East: Iraq, Libya and Beyond

October 23, 2011, Robert Kagan

The Future of EU-U.S. Security and Defense Cooperation: What Lies Ahead?

October 3, 2011, Clara M. O'Donnell

Obama's Foreign Policy: Adapting to Facts on the Ground

May 2011, Cesare Merlini

Yanukovich's First Year

March 1, 2011, Steven Pifer and William Taylor

The Price of Power

January 24, 2011, Robert Kagan

Around the Halls: The Obama Administration's First Two Years

January 20, 2011, William A. Galston and Steven Pifer

Republican Takeover Could Help Obama in 2012

November 2, 2010, Justin Vaïsse

L’américanisme de Sarkozy, c’est Elvis Presley et Hollywood

March 28, 2010, Justin Vaïsse

The Armenian Lobby and Azerbaijan: Strange Bedfellows in Washington

March 8, 2010, Ömer Taşpınar

«Le président américain a dû composer avec les lobbys»

February 24, 2010, Justin Vaïsse