@report {6871, title = {How Not to Fix the Middle East}, year = {2009}, month = {12/07}, institution = {Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH)}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {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 {\textquotedblleft}post-American{\textquotedblright} rhetoric of liberal internationalists and realists is setting off a scramble for advantage among the {\textquotedblleft}middle powers{\textquotedblright} of the Middle East.\ Originally a lecture delivered on November 16, 2009, to the Columbia University International Relations Forum (CUIRF).}, url = {http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/files/2009/12/obama_kramer.pdf}, author = {Martin Kramer} }