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U.S. President Barack Obama announces Michael Froman (L) as his nominee for U.S. Trade Representative while in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington (REUTERS/Larry Downing).

Opinion

Free Trade Is Not Quite President Obama's Neglected Stepchild, But...

May 1, 2013, Bill Frenzel

Bill Frenzel argues that trade was not a priority during the first Obama administration. However, Frenzel says steps taken by the president to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership along with the recent nomination of Michael Froman as U.S. Trade Representative will help increase U.S. and world trade.

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Expert Q & A | Elizabeth Ferris

The Black Swan: The Big Thaw

February 6, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris
In the News

The reality is it is not tenable simply for Republicans to stay in opposition for the whole second term of President Obama. If they are seen as the obstacle to doing anything to solve our problems, they are writing their own death certificate.
December 25, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, Voice of America
Interview | NPR's Talk the Nation

Obama's Foreign Policy, Take Two

November 29, 2012, Robert Kagan
In the News

If you are going to do something big or important, do it fast. A presidential administration is like an hourglass with the sand running out. There is a blip up with your second inauguration. You know the odds are that you are going to lose seats at the midterm election, and pretty soon you are going to look pretty lame-duckish, as even your supporters start to choose up sides over your successor.
November 23, 2012, Stephen Hess, National Journal
In the News

[Nonproliferation is] going to be very high on [Obama’s] agenda. Preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons is a critical imperative for bolstering the nonproliferation regime.
November 7, 2012, Martin S. Indyk, Reuters
Interview | CNN

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

October 23, 2012, Robert Kagan
In the News

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
In the News

Le monde de Romney, c'est le monde de Bush qui n'a pas beaucoup changé.
October 22, 2012, Justin Vaïsse, La Tribune
Interview | Al Jazeera English

Disarming the World

October 18, 2012, Steven Pifer
Expert Q & A

Economic Growth and the Presidential Election

August 13, 2012, Martin Neil Baily and Benjamin Wittes