WPR's The New Rules: Obama Abdicating U.S. Leadership in Libya

Monday, March 14, 2011 at 9:31AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Middle East, Obama Administration, US foreign policy, WPR Column

If President Barack Obama's handling of the events in Libya exemplifies his own definition of a "post-American world," then we have moved past a G-Zero reality, which is how Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer described a G-20 that can't agree on how to rebalance global power, and into what I would describe as the "G-Less-Than-Zero" world, where America purposefully abdicates its global leadership role.

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