New Perspectives on Obama
Time to report on the latest arrival of NPQ -- New Perspectives Quarterly. The Spring 2009 issue on our current periodical racks is titled 'Obama's Smart Power', and highlights geopolitical challenges to the President's "smart power" strategy. The issue opens with a statement by Mr Obama, followed by interviews and commentary on this and other topics from the usual gang of suspects, i.e. world leaders, including U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph S. Nye Jr, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, author Olivier Roy (Globalized Islam), Afghan President Hamid Karzai, former President Jimmy Carter, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, ex-Shanghai mayor Xu Kuangdi, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, author Fareed Zakaria, historian Francis Fukuyama, Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, and others. Take a look.


