The new European policy of Obama’s America: the more it changes… the less does it change?
La Lettre Sentinel n°50, November 2008
Language of the original publication: French
(…) Actually, the departure of the Bush administration will not be, in itself, carrying any notable change in the major orientations and the main features of US foreign policy. Except, of course, when it comes to the presentation, image and the packaging.
Still remains the “Obamania”, this overwhelming enthusiasm that wants to allot to the very person of the ex-senator of Illinois and to his program the virtues of renewal and radical change. Virtues which, a priori, are not there. If a change in the traditionally pursued line cannot be completely excluded today, it is not due to the character (a pure product of the system), nor to his program (the perfect reflection of the formatted reflections of the establishment in Washington DC), but to the fact that both would be, in this case, subjected to extremely serious constraints. Be as it may, with or without change in other fields, the transatlantic relations, themselves, will follow their own dynamics, in which any deviation (in the form of “reconciliations” and of “renewals”) can only be ephemeral and superficial.
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(Hajnalka Vincze, The new European policy of Obama’s America: the more it changes… the less does it change?, La Lettre Sentinel n°50, November 2008, 21,000 characters)
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