The Long Game: How Will Obama's Foreign Policies Be Judged By History?

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🗓️ 21 June 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Is Barack Obama's foreign policy "failing at nearly every turn," as Speaker Paul Ryan and many other Republicans contend? Or has the president actually crafted a wiser, more effective approach to America's place in the world that sets this country up for success? Derek Chollet, a six-year veteran of the Obama administration, takes the latter view in his new book, The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World (PublicAffairs). Ryan Evans, WOTR's editor-in-chief, sat down with Chollet, currently at the German Marshall Fund, and Richard Fontaine, the president of the Center for a New American Security, for an energetic debate on the legacy that this president will leave behind.

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0:50.0	I'm sitting here with Derek Shilay and Richard Fontaine.
0:52.0	Derek is at the German Marshall Fund. I'm sitting here with Derek Shilay and Richard Fontaine.
0:52.7	Derek is at the German Marshall Fund,
0:54.7	that was formerly of the Obama administration.
0:56.8	And Richard, Warren the Rocks listeners,
0:58.9	already know Richard from his past appearances
1:00.7	on the Warren thearks podcast series
1:02.0	is president of the Center for
1:03.7	a New American Security.
1:05.1	We're here to have a robust conversation about a really robust book, The Long Game, how Obama defied Washington and redefined America's role in the world.
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