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american power & the worldThe period since 9/11 has renewed global debate about the nature of United States power and influence in a world being transformed by globalisation. openDemocracy writers - American and non-American - bring fresh perspectives to bear on the Iraq war, the question of empire, unilateralism, the "end of history", neo-conservatism, and foreign policy under and after George W Bush
The secret empire of violation that shadowed the "war on terror" must be held to account
Barack Obama’s intended audience for his "new beginning" with Muslims was also at home
The US president's Cairo speech will be a measure of the prospects for a new peace process
The US president’s Cairo visit should offer the Arab-Muslim worlds an America they can at last believe (See also our account of Obama's speech in Cairo)
Hugo Chávez’s gift to Barack Obama is a blast from the past not a guide to the future
The US president reaches a landmark with his first-term achievement already in the balance
An eye-witness account in the US of the practise recently deployed during the G-20
summit
A shift of strategy towards “AfPak” must go deeper - to the local and regional
The US president's smooth European tour also clarifies the scale of his problems
The outsourcing of recovery to the zombies traps the global president in a domestic vice
The Obama-Bernanke plans will drain life and energy from the rest of the world
Enthusiasm for Obama's success provides a window into the glaring shortfalls of French society
The congressional politics of the financial crisis demand a new toolbox from the president
There are second and even third acts in American political lives - or so the Republicans hope
The test of Barack Obama's plan will be how far women workers' interests are at its heart
"You only have one year". The clock is already ticking for Barack Obama
Barack Obama remains a political enigma. Is that because he doesn't believe in politics?
A new, young, African-American president opens a fresh political era in the United States and the world. openDemocracy authors offer their thoughts
The new US president must break with the recent American past to claim the future
The task of redecorating the Oval Office includes remembering and re-imagining trans-Atlantic relations
A new president faces a daunting international challenge on poverty, climate and governance
Among the many challenges awaiting the new Obama administration is the feeble state of US public service, which is failing to attract the best new talent
Obama's promise of transformation must apply to relations with Russia. Since the fall of communism, bad faith has dogged US policies towards Russia, followed by the return of Cold War stereotypes
The transition process is casting a shadow over hopes for Barack Obama’s presidency
The United States president-elect will be a change-maker not a miracle-worker
The United States president-elect promises to withdraw troops from
Iraq. Will he deliver?
The assumptions that guided earlier American policies towards Europe no
longer apply
The middle east is a priority, says John Hulsman. Be bold on Europe too, adds A Wess Mitchell
American voters' rejection of the conservative
ascendancy must now be made real
“I see myself standing at the cusp of something wonderful”. A New Orleans election-day diary
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