Sam Hazelgrove

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    For the Obama Administration’s “pivot” to Asia to be successful, it must address the question of what the U.S. role in the region should be.

For the Obama Administration’s “pivot” to Asia to be successful, it must address the question of what the U.S. role in the region should be.

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With the eyes of the world firmly placed on developments in Iraq and Israel and Gaza, it might be easy to forget the Obama Administration’s ‘pivot’ towards Asia, illustrated by the President’s tour of the region earlier this year. Sam Hazelgrove takes a close look at the state of the Asia “pivot”, writing that while the term itself may […]

August 13th, 2014|Sam Hazelgrove, US foreign affairs and the North American neighbourhood|1 Comment|
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Obama’s Syria dilemma showed that for foreign policy to be successful, the management of information is just as important as the substance of ideas.

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Last month, after a seemingly inevitable march towards U.S. military invention in Syria, a Russian brokered deal was made for the Assad regime to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international control. While many have critiqued what they term President Obama’s ‘improvisational’ foreign policy, Sam Hazelgrove argues that Obama’s actions on Syria are a result of a pragmatic approach that should […]

October 29th, 2013|Sam Hazelgrove, US foreign affairs and the North American neighbourhood|0 Comments|
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Syria has exposed the fault lines in the Republican Party over foreign policy

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While the Republican Party is largely united against President Obama’s domestic policies, recent moves in Washington to intervene militarily in Syria have exposed the lack of consensus in the party on foreign policy issues. Sam Hazelgrove argues that the GOP’s past opposition to Obama has masked the division of the party on foreign policy into hawkish hardliners and neo-isolationists. Given […]

September 14th, 2013|Elections and party politics across the US, Sam Hazelgrove, US foreign affairs and the North American neighbourhood|0 Comments|
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