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The Democratic and Republican candidates are doing all they can to distinguish themselves from an unpopular incumbent president and from one another in the remaining weeks before Americans vote.
Still, it is possible to discern some similarities between them, in part because some of their disagreements are not as pronounced as they seem, and in part because the constraints that the next president of the United States will face are certain to limit what either man could do in office.
Under the next president, the US will no longer be a drag on international efforts to create a global regime that sets a ceiling on greenhouse gas emissions.
With a strained military and a struggling economy, the next president will often have little choice other than to talk.
Aspects of the next president’s foreign policy are there to see if observers read between the lines and take as much note of what is not said as what is.
As America’s primaries move beyond Iowa and New Hampshire, it is simply impossible to predict who will be the Democratic and Republican nominees, much less who will become the 44th president of the United States.
The judgment by America’s intelligence community that Iran has suspended its nuclear weapon development program – and, more importantly, that its large-scale uranium enrichment capacity is likely years away – postpones the day when a US president may have to decide between living with or attacking a nuclear Iran.
A third reason for the modest impact of international issues on voters’ choice of the next president is another surprising development: more agreement between and among the leading candidates than meets the eye.
America’s next president will face a host of pressing and difficult foreign policy challenges – and how he or she responds will affect not only the US, but the entire world.
Ban Ki-moon’s Hushed PowerNEW YORK – Days after Sri Lanka’s government defeated its long-time foe, the Tamil Tigers, in May, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew into the country’s capital, Colombo, for a 24-hour visit to urge its president to open up its refugee camps to international aid groups.
In South Africa, Jacob Zuma’s resignation allowed Cyril Ramaphosa to become president.
The US president can and should, by executive order, terminate CIA covert operations – and thereby end the legacy of blowback and mayhem that they have sustained, most notably in the Middle East.
For the first time, a sitting US president hinted at a possible, perhaps even likely, change of future policy.
The advocacy group Human Rights Watch wrote a public letter to the new president, asking what he intends to do about the thousands of missing Mexicans.
But after the Saudis feted him with sword dances and bestowed on him the highest civilian award when he visited the Kingdom on his first trip abroad as US president, he changed his tune.
So far, the “social partners,” as ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet likes to call the unions, have been quiet.
The US president has the power to impose tariffs and other trade barriers unilaterally, in the interest of national security.
Iran’s Young GuardTEHRAN – Iranians will go to the polls on June 12 to elect a new president.
No candidate can be elected president of Iran without significant support among younger voters.
Juncker and Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, can speak about méthode communautaire until they are blue in the face; it is not happening in the foreseeable future.
Given Hollande’s rock-bottom approval ratings, it is widely believed that the winning Republican will be France’s next president.
I still believe that Juppé is most likely to emerge as France’s next president.
A Republican president also would make appointments to many key policymaking positions, from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury to regulatory agencies.
Likewise, in 2004, Costa Rica’s president decreed that his administration stop advertising in the country’s leading daily newspaper, in retaliation for critical coverage.
But legislative- and executive-branch integration has lagged, and, while Europe has created a president and a central figure for foreign relations, foreign and defense policy remains only partly integrated.
India’s diplomatic challenge now is to weather the occasional turbulence generated by a mercurial US president who is playing to his domestic base.
Capitalizing on Climate UnityBONN – When Donald Trump was elected US president a year ago, some said the end of the Paris climate agreement was nigh.
The European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his election to a fourth term – a move that rankled the UK.
Musharraf’s Ambiguous LegacyPakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s resignation brings to an end one of the more interesting curiosities of subcontinental politics: for more than four years, Pakistan had a president who was born in India, while India had a Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) who was born in Pakistan.
Within months, however, Musharraf had conducted a coup against the hapless Nawaz Sharif, and a year later declared himself president, a title meant to enhance his stature when he visited India for peace talks in July 2001.
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