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then informed his national security advisor Susan Rice, who then relayed it to a supposedly improvisati

n welcome this development. Whether by openly endorsing Russian rhetoric about an end of the Cold War and the Great Game, as President Obama did at the U.N. General Assembly in September, or by coining new euphemisms for a reluctance to involve itself in regional wars ("leading from behind"), the current administration

on? Edward Djerejian is the founding director of Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy a

bama's reluctance to intervene in Syria has occasioned yet another round of soul-searching on America's role in the world. His reflective speech at the U.N. General Assembly has led commentators to wonder whether the United States remains willing to play its traditional and indispensable role in maintaining world order.

arak, Israel’s prime minister during the late 1990s. The Bush administration did not have a different position, as statements from the president and Condoleezza Rice make clear. Here is George W. Bush in 2008: “I believe that any peace agreement between them will require mutually agreed adjustments to the armistic

’s future. The newsworthy, and real, shift in U.S. policy was Obama publicly condemning the Palestinian strategy to seek recognition as a state from the U.N. General Assembly in September. He also questioned the accord between Fatah and Hamas. Obama endorsed the idea of a demilitarized Palestinian state, a demand Israel ha

e Jewish and Palestinian peoples to self-determination, without prejudice to the rights of all citizens and minority groups. Recall, in this context, U.N. General Assembly resolution 181 of 1947 that called for the establishment of a Jewish state and an Arab state. • Acknowledge institutional and security reform, econom

om rationing books to enjoying one of the largest rice surpluses in the world in a quarter of a century.