Foreign Policy: Obama Mended Some Ties and Strained Others

By Claire Suddath and Christopher Power on October 11, 2012

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President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize heralded “a new climate in international politics,” and certainly there have been changes in U.S. foreign relations since George W. Bush’s administration.

Sources: National Democratic Institute; Stratfor; U.S. Department of State; Photographs: Alamy(1); AP Photo(1); Getty Images(9); PA(1); YouTube(1)

Suddath is a staff writer for Bloomberg Businessweek. Power is the Global Economics editor at Bloomberg Businessweek.

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