Obama

2009
Kramer, Martin. How Not to Fix the Middle East. Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH). Cambridge, MA: Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH), 2009. Publisher's VersionAbstract

The Obama administration is undercutting its own ambitious agenda, by signaling that the United States has lost some of its weight in world affairs. The “post-American” rhetoric of liberal internationalists and realists is setting off a scramble for advantage among the “middle powers” of the Middle East. Originally a lecture delivered on November 16, 2009, to the Columbia University International Relations Forum (CUIRF).

How Not to Fix the Middle East (pdf)