Values, Principles, Power and Interests in US Foreign Policy

Abstract

This panel will focus on questions concerning the on-going tension between values and interests, power and principles in US foreign policy. What role do ideas have in forming US foreign policy? Do concerns over power relations and the national interest dominate? Has the Obama administration been driven more by re-establishing a foreign policy based on first principles, or has it fundamentally been based upon calculations of relative power and defending and expanding US global interests? Has the US made greater and more effective use of its soft power under Obama? What impact has the global economic crisis had upon the relative power of the United States? Is the US in danger of being eclipsed as a global power by China?

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