What the election means for American foreign policy
Foreign Policy, “A Realist in an Ideological Age” blog
August 9, 2012
Commentary by: Stephen M. Walt, member of the Belfer Center Board of Directors and Harvard Kennedy School’s Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs
Topic: What the 2012 election means for U.S. foreign policy
“These days I keep getting asked what the 2012 election means for U.S. foreign policy. I have no doubt that Romney’s foreign policy would differ in some ways from Obama’s, though it’s hard to know exactly how, given Romney’s remarkable ignorance of the subject and the opacity of many of his comments. Some of Romney’s advisors have worrisome track records — i.e., they were among the architects of some of our country’s biggest foreign policy blunders — but most of Obama’s foreign policy team supported the invasion of Iraq too.”
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Stephen M. Walt on the 2012 election and U.S. foreign policy
What the election means for American foreign policy
Foreign Policy, “A Realist in an Ideological Age” blog
August 9, 2012
Commentary by: Stephen M. Walt, member of the Belfer Center Board of Directors and Harvard Kennedy School’s Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs
Topic: What the 2012 election means for U.S. foreign policy
“These days I keep getting asked what the 2012 election means for U.S. foreign policy. I have no doubt that Romney’s foreign policy would differ in some ways from Obama’s, though it’s hard to know exactly how, given Romney’s remarkable ignorance of the subject and the opacity of many of his comments. Some of Romney’s advisors have worrisome track records — i.e., they were among the architects of some of our country’s biggest foreign policy blunders — but most of Obama’s foreign policy team supported the invasion of Iraq too.”
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