Obama ought to take up cricket
Obama ought to take up cricket
10 December 2008In an opinion piece in the Financial Times, Dr Michael Fullilove, Program Director Global Issues and a visiting fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, argues that there are several lessons about the international system that President-Elect Barack Obama could learn from cricket.
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Mr. Obama's first trip
15 December 2008On 15 December 2008, Dr Michael Fullilove published an op-ed in The New York Times. During the campaign, President-elect Barack Obama promised that in the first 100 days of his administration he would 'travel to a major Islamic forum and deliver an address to redefine our struggle.' In his op-ed, Dr Fullilove argues that Mr Obama should deliver this speech in Indonesia.
The New York Times, 15 December 2008, p. 35
Capitol Hill needs old codgers, spring chickens and a middle-aged spread
Capitol Hill needs old codgers, spring chickens and a middle-aged spread
19 December 2008In an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, Dr Michael Fullilove argues for the inclusion of middle-aged as well as young and older apppointees in the new Obama administration.
Sydney Morning Herald, 19 December 2008, p. 29
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Reports of US decline could be premature
Reports of US decline could be premature
7 January 2009In an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, Michael Fullilove, Program Director Global Issues and a Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, argues that Obama will be the president who reveals the frailties in the argument that America is on the decline.
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Obama's inaugural address and U.S. foreign policy: lessons from history
Obama's inaugural address and U.S. foreign policy: lessons from history
14 January 2009In this Perspective, Dr Michael Fullilove, who is currently based at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, looks ahead to President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural address on 20 January. Obama is an unusually gifted writer and speaker with an old-fashioned attachment to speeches, who will likely address his vision for US foreign policy in his address. Dr Fullilove distills three lessons on the relationship between presidential language and foreign policy: foreign policy speeches should be well written but not overwritten; foreign policy rhetoric should be firmly tethered to foreign policy reality; and multiple and diverse audiences need to be addressed.
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