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Treading Carefully on Iran

President Barack Obama during his news conference at the White House, June 23, 2009. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) U.S. President Barack Obama's condemnation of the Iranian regime's crackdown on civilians protesting the presidential election marked his ...

From GREG BRUNO AND ROBERT MCMAHON, Council on Foreign Relations,  24 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Wall Street Journal,  George W. Bush,  Robert Kagan

President Obama and the World

Spectators listen to then-presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama speak in front of the Victory Column in Berlin, July 24, 2008. (AP/Jens Meyer) Into this troubling mix strides Barack Obama, whose historic presidential campaign promised change on the ...

From ROBERT MCMAHON, Council on Foreign Relations,  19 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  Ronald Reagan

Finance and Foreign Policy

An Afghan child clutches a can of US-donated cooking oil. Nongovernmental and UN organizations are concerned that the financial crisis will lead developed countries to reduce foreign aid. With many economists now pointing to a looming recession, ...

From ROBERT MCMAHON, Council on Foreign Relations,  15 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  The Pentagon,  North American Free Trade Agreement,  Robert Gates

Foreign Policy and Main Street

A foreclosed home for sale in Sacramento, California on July 2, 2008. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli) The flagging fortunes of Wall Street and Main Street commanded the attention (CFR/Pew poll) of many Americans as the U.S. presidential campaign entered its ...

From ROBERT MCMAHON, Council on Foreign Relations,  26 Sep 2008
Related Topics: John McCain,  Barack Obama,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  U.S. Congress,  Ben Bernanke

Sparks Fly over Energy

ST. PAUL Hurricane Gustav ended up less destructive than feared for New Orleans and the Gulf oil industry, but on the other end of the Mississippi River the storm served as a fresh reminder of the energy security issue for Republicans gathering at ...

From ROBERT MCMAHON, Council on Foreign Relations,  3 Sep 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  John McCain,  Barack Obama,  Sarah Palin,  U.S. Democratic Party

Picking Presidents and Foreign Policy

Jubilation as a presidential National Convention concludes. (AP/Mark Humphrey) The start of the presidential nominating conventions finds the economy fixed uppermost in Americans' concerns. But in various ways, national security could underpin many of ...

From ROBERT MCMAHON, Council on Foreign Relations,  25 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

Beyond Russia's Near Abroad

The foreign ministers from Russia and Germany along with the U.S. Secretary of State in Berlin, Germany Jan. 22, 2008 to discuss Iran's nuclear program. (AP/Michael Sohn) The Kremlin's relations with many Western capitals had grown fraught long before ...

From ROBERT MCMAHON, Council on Foreign Relations,  19 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Richard Lugar,  NATO,  Robert Gates,  Condoleezza Rice

In Russia-Georgia Conflict, Balkan Shadows

Russian soldiers wait on the road leading to the border of South Ossetia. (AP/Mikhail Metzel) Circumstances in two separatist Georgian border regions—South Ossetia in the north and Abkhazia in the northwest—brought Russia and Georgia into open conflict ...

From ROBERT MCMAHON, Council on Foreign Relations,  11 Aug 2008
Related Topics: NATO,  Slobodan Milosevic,  Sergei Lavrov,  Bill Clinton,  Richard Holbrooke

War Resurfaces on the Campaign Trail

A U.S. Marine during a patrol in the town of Garmser in Helmand province of Afghanistan. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool) This summer, however, the presidential campaigns have seized on national security as a dominant issue, offering nearly daily reminders of the ...

From ROBERT MCMAHON, Council on Foreign Relations,  23 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  Al-Qaeda,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush

A Fight over Energy

A motorist buys gasoline in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago on Wednesday, April 30. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast) Each uptick in prices at U.S. gasoline pumps seems to heighten the importance of energy as an election-year issue. Polls reflect ...

From ROBERT MCMAHON, Council on Foreign Relations,  5 May 2008
Related Topics: Andrew Natsios,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  John McCain,  Thomas Friedman

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