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“Leading from Behind”: What Would Walter McDougall Think?

“Leading from Behind”: What Would Walter McDougall Think?

A little under two weeks ago the Boston Herald published an online editorial suggesting that President Obama “abandon his ‘lead from behind’ stance.”[i]  This facilitated some personal reflection on the President’s supposed foreign policy strategy and America’s role as the global leader.  For those unfamiliar with the term “leading from behind,” it was supposedly coined […]

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In with Global Engagement, Out with GWOT

Patricia Kushlis at WhirledView has an excellent post on the end of the Global War on Terror(John Brennan, Obama’s top White House advisor for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism, who formally declared America’s Global War on Terror over at a CSIS event) and what global engagement means as a concept and a policy in practice. I couldn’t […]

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