Obama Breaks the Chessboard

Obama Breaks the Chessboard

More than a century on, McCoy can see few examples of leaders who have ever really understood Mackinder's theories and applied them. But he believes Barack Obama is one of them, despite widespread criticism of the US president's foreign policy nous. He points to Obama's 2011 address to the Australian parliament, where he flagged a rebalancing of priorities towards Asia (the so-called 'Asia pivot'), as a key example.

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