Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs magazine and Carla Robbins of The New York Times editorial board join Edie Magnus to discuss: continuing security problems in Iraq, President Barack Obama's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize and the prospects of a climate agreement in Copenhagen.
All Posts Tagged With: "Nobel Peace Prize"
Week in Review
December 11, 2009
Week in Review: Iraq, Obama’s Nobel and climate change
Video
December 10, 2009
Presiding over age of war, Obama receives top peace prize
As President Obama prepares to send 30,000 more Americans to war in Afghanistan, he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today in Oslo, Norway. Obama said, "The belief in peace is desirable rarely enough to achieve it" and called the escalating conflict in Afghanistan necessary. Steve Chao of Al Jazeera English reports on how Afghans are reacting.
(blog) Nina Hachigian
October 12, 2009
Obama is damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t
Nina Hachigian argues that President Obama's foreign policy vision is worthy of international accolade because he's implementing a strategy that recognizes that nation states have to hang together in this world or suffer apart.
(blog) Peter Eisner
October 12, 2009
Nobel Prize’s impact changing the course of war to peace
Peter Eisner argues that the Nobel Prize applies pressure at a time when President Obama has big decisions to make – think Afghanistan, where the choices of troop involvement and fighting terrorism are monumental. It's a call to the U.S. – find the peaceful solution.
Week in Review (video)
October 9, 2009
Week in review: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Obama’s Nobel
Garrick Utley of the State University of New York and Chrystia Freeland of Britain's Financial Times discuss the week's top stories: The impact of U.S. President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and his biggest foreign policy challenge -- Afghanistan and Pakistan.
How You See It
October 9, 2009
How You See It: Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize
U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. His selection has generated broad reaction around the world. Should the Nobel Peace Prize have been awarded to President Obama? Tell us what you think.
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