Obama's Foreign Policy Inbox: A Discussion

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Partner:: Council on Foreign Relations
Location:: Council on Foreign Relations
New York, NY
Event Date:: 01.27.09
Speakers:: David E. Sanger,; Barbara Slavin
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Summary: President Obama steps into office immediately confronted by multiple pressing foreign policy puzzles. Iran's march to nuclear power, ongoing volatility in Gaza, Russia's increasingly fraught relations with Europe and the struggle to stabilize Afghanistan almost make it possible to forget that Iraq remains America's largest overseas commitment.

How will each of these challenges be met and what should take priority?

David Sanger and Barbara Slavin discuss.

Bio

David E. Sanger

David E. Sanger is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times and is one of the newspaper's senior writers. In a 24-year career at the paper, he has reported from New York, Tokyo, and Washington, covering a wide variety of issues surrounding foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, Asian affairs, and, for the past five years, the arc of the Bush presidency. Twice he has been a member of Times reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize.

His most recent book is The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power (Harmony, 2009), a Times best-seller that explores the national security challenges facing President Barack Obama.

Barbara Slavin

Barbara Slavin is Assistant Managing Editor for World and National Security of The Washington Times and the author of a 2007 book on Iran entitled "Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation." Prior to joining The Times in July 2008, she was senior diplomatic reporter for USA TODAY, responsible for analyzing foreign news and U.S. foreign policy.

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01.: Introduction

02 min 37 sec

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02.: Costs of Distraction in Iraq

06 min 21 sec

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03.: Iran Probably Won't Go for Nuclear Weapons

04 min 02 sec

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04.: Al-Qaeda Rebuilding in Afghanistan

03 min 40 sec

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05.: The Mission in Pakistan and Afghanistan

07 min 45 sec

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06.: Elections in the Middle East

06 min 03 sec

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07.: Good Things Obama Inherits from Bush

01 min 41 sec

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08.: Iranian Influence in Middle East

02 min 45 sec

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09.: Q1: If Israel Attacks Iran

04 min 04 sec

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10.: Q2: Dealing with India

01 min 32 sec

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11.: Q3: Chance of Action in Darfur

01 min 25 sec

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12.: Q4: Disclosure of Sensitive Operations

03 min 42 sec

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13.: Q5: Cooperation with Russia

03 min 33 sec

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14.: Q6: Afghanistan a Second Vietnam

01 min 19 sec

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15.: Q7: Obama's Own Issues

03 min 19 sec

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16.: Q8: Covert Operation in Iran

05 min 14 sec

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17.: Q9: China Agenda

04 min 29 sec

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David Sanger Calls for US-China Clean Energy Partnership

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Should Obama Continue Covert Operations in Iran?

02 min 46 sec

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foreign policy: General objectives that guide the activities and relationships of one state in its interactions with other states. The development of foreign policy is influenced by domestic considerations, the policies or behaviour of other states, or plans to advance specific geopolitical designs. Leopold von Ranke emphasized the primacy of geography and external threats in shaping foreign policy, but later writers emphasized domestic factors. Diplomacy is the tool of foreign policy, and war, alliances, and international trade may all be manifestations of it.; foreign policy on britannica.com