Sasha Polakow-Suransky: "Obama's World"

Guest lecture

Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 00:00

Obama's World

Hillary Clinton called him inexperienced. John McCain calls him naive.

If Barack Obama becomes president of the United States, he will

inherit one of the messiest foreign policy legacies of any incoming

president in history. What can the world expect from an Obama

administration in Iraq, Iran, Israel/Palestine, and the wider world?

Would Obama pursue a radically different foreign policy agenda or

upset his left-wing admirers by keeping a large number of U.S. troops

in Iraq? And will his heritage as a half-Kenyan with the middle name

Hussein dramatically improve America's image in the Muslim world, or

will he end up disappointing the millions of people throughout the

world who expect more change than he can deliver?

Sasha Polakow-Suransky is Associate Editor at Foreign Affairs magazine

in New York. He is a former correspondent for the American Prospect

magazine in Washington, where he wrote on U.S. and European politics.

He holds a BA in History and Urban Studies from Brown University and a

doctorate from the University of Oxford. His book, The Unspoken

Alliance: Israel and Apartheid South Africa, will be published in

2009.

In connection with the lecture series 'Citizenship, Participation and Civil Society', Centre for International Studies in Citizenship, Democratic Participation and Civil Society (CIPACI) at Roskilde University, will host another lecture by Dr. Sasha Polakow Suransky: " Obamania: Will the 2008 Election Put an End to Voter Apathy?". For more information on time and place and content, please download:

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