Renewing American Leadership

Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, argues that US foreign policy must be reformed if America’s international power is to be revitalized. Obama, who has pledged to withdraw US troops from Iraq, laments that the Iraq War damaged some international relationships that secured both US power and global stability in the post-World War II era. Now, he argues, the US must work to repair those relationships in order to build a more secure world for itself and its partners. The US can only confront the world’s gravest dangers – including nuclear proliferation and international terrorism – if it confronts those dangers alongside the rest of the world. Obama argues that the US must lead the world – but only by persuading the world to follow a fair and responsible form of American leadership. – YaleGlobal