Foreign Policy 2012
The Debate Over America Abroad
How Obama Lost Canada
Derek Burney & Fen Hampson, Foreign Affairs
How Obama Won Canada
Lawrence Martin, Globe and Mail
Romney's Foreign-Policy Team: Anyone Home?
Eli Lake, The Daily Beast
Romney's Attack on Obama's Foreign Policy
Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
Why Romney Is a Foreign Policy Lightweight
Fred Kaplan, Slate
Permitting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline should have been an easy diplomatic and economic decision for U.S. President Barack Obama. The completed project would hav...(full article)
Barack Obama is ultra popular in Canada, easily one of the most popular presidents in history. A recent Angus Reid poll found that 65 per cent of Canadian voters would vote for h...(full article)
Insiders say advisers are sidelined, scrambling to be heard in a campaign that seems solely focused on bashing Obama's economic record....(full article)
The 2012 election will hinge on the economy, not on U.S. foreign policy, unless there is a major overseas crisis - an Israeli attack on Iran, an Iranian detonation of a nuclear w...(full article)
Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. presidential elections do not hinge on foreign policy. On this point, conventional wisdom is almost certainly correct. But it shouldn't be, fo...(full article)
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