Barack Obama foreign policy

Barack Obama addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, September 24, 2013.

Forget About Obama’s ‘Pivot to Asia’

Global Politics

President Obama spoke at the United Nations on Tuesday morning and outlined top priorities for US foreign policy, almost all of them in the Middle East.

U.S. Weighs Intervention in Syria

Israelis, Palestinians stuck after Obama’s speech

Treatment of terror suspects to change

Global Politics

The President-elect and the Middle East

U.S.-China Relations in Obama’s Second Term

Over the next four years, President Obama will face a number of foreign policy issues, as regime change continues in the Middle East and as the United States withdraws from Afghanistan, but one of the Obama Administration’s most complex challenges is navigating our complicated relationship with China. Donald Gross, senior associate at the Center for […]

President Obama to Meet With Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

At this weekend’s conference of the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee, President Barack Obama reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security. During his remarks to the pro-Israel lobbying group, the President restated that, with regards to ensuring Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon, all options are on the table. The President also […]

Top of the Hour: Obama Speaks on Iran, Morning Headlines

President Obama makes some revealing comments over tensions between Israel and Iran. In a pre-Super Bowl interview with NBC, the president said Israel has not made a decision to strike Iran even as worries grow Tehran is building a nuclear weapon. However, the president wouldn’t say if the U.S. would be privy to knowledge of […]

Jimmy Carter on Politics, World Events, and His New Book

As America faces an ongoing recession, the Middle East faces revolution and turmoil, and the president faces what could be an incredibly difficult re-election campaign, we couldn’t think of a better person to talk current events with than Nobel Peace Prize winner and 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter. Carter is the author […]

President Obama in Britain, Leaders Reaffirm Commitment to Libya

President Obama has been in wide-ranging talks in London with the British prime minister, David Cameron. Both leaders restated their commitment to maintaining the pressure on Libya and to ensure democracy in North Africa. At issue is also the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Britain has said that it might support a Palestinian declaration of independence, something […]