martedì 18 ottobre 2016

What is President Obama’s Legacy?

Excellent article:
Some research to do:
What was the ‘legacy’ that Obama inherited from previous administrations? What were the expectations when he was elected at home and abroad? What were his policy objectives? Consider:

1) Obama as the first African American elected President
2) the divisions in US society
3) the US economy, short term and long-term, and global cooperation in this area
4) reforming the financial and banking sector
5) the war on terror and the US approach to the Arab world / Israel and the Palestinians
6) civil liberties, Guantánamo Bay and human rights
7) health care reform
8) US oreign policy and the Pacific
9) US foreign policy and Russia
10) US foreign policy and China
11) US foreign policy the EU and NATO
12) climate change

More than seven years later what are the realities regarding these questions? Were these objectives achieved? If not, why not? What are the main criticisms coming from those on the right? And on the left?
What have been the limiting factors and constraints, legal and practical, on Obama?
What are the major achievements and failures of the administration and the man, given all of the above? The Iran nuclear deal / Cuba / climate change etc…

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