New Book: The World Views of the Obama Era: From Hope to
Disillusionment (edited by Matthias Maass).
This book presents selected non-US views of the Barack Obama
administration. Each chapter investigates eight years of the Obama presidency
from a different national perspective. By bringing together fourteen country
studies from all regions of the world, this volume offers an accumulative
global view of the Obama White House’s foreign policies and bilateral affairs.
It provides an outside perspective on a presidency that was initially greeted
with much enthusiasm world-wide, but seemed to fall out of favor over time in
most countries. The overwhelming hope that was associated with the election of
Obama in 2008 turned to disillusionment world-wide; the changes in US external
affairs he promised were only partially fulfilled and the world was reminded
that America’s place and role in the world would not change dramatically, not
even under the inspirational Obama. The chapter that provides the perspective from Egypt is
written by Nael Shama.
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