Perspectives on U.S. Leadership in the Fall of 2013

In the face of endless turmoil in the Middle East, the U.S. leadership seems to waver. Are we witnessing the long-heralded decline of U.S. power and influence, or is the current situation due to the attitude of the President and therefore temporary? What other foreign policy choices could Barack Obama's successor develop?

With

Walter Russell Mead, Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, editor at large of The American Interest

Justin Vaïsse, Director of Policy Planning, French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs

Chair: Laurence Nardon, Head of the United States Program at Ifri

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