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# America's global election
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/americas-foreign-policy-election/
- Published: 2008-08-28T23:08:37.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:59:09.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 19:46

A hopeful, confident, generous-spirited young leader is contending for  
the presidency of the United States. But the country's position and  
reputation in the world today evokes none of these adjectives. This  
world - the crises in Georgia and Pakistan may just be the start - is crowding  
in on the election. Iran could yet provide the statutory "October  
surprise". In short, America may - may - be ready for Barack Obama,  
but the whole world is watching. Could it even have the decisive "vote"? [Godfrey Hodgson](https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Godfrey%5FHodgson.jsp), always worth reading, [identifies](https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/america-s-foreign-policy-election) a crucial factor in the campaign.