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Barack Obama’s election profoundly altered America’s image in the world handed down by George W. Bush. But would the change of leader necessarily bring about a change of policy? Would America’s superpower, that George W. Bush had shown could be very aggressive, prove more gentle now? This is the first book to try and answer this very important question, drawing on an in-depth study of Barack Obama’s personality, his speeches, the team around him and the choice of international policy that he has been driven to make since coming to office in January 2009.
Zaki Laïdi shows here that Obama has two objectives: freeing America from the shadow of 9/11 that made it see the world in a Manichean light, and rehabilitating the American leadership’s image in the world on the basis of the following principle – admitting that America can no longer single-handedly solve global problems while refusing to let these same problems be solved without her. Obama certainly has not abandoned America’s position as the world’s leading power. But he also knows that, in order to maintain this position, they have to work more closely with the world to avoid the risk of becoming isolated from it. All the same, no-one should underestimate either the continuation of American policies – which, like the policies of any major state, cannot change overnight – nor the countless political constraints imposed on the American administration by countries from Afghanistan to the Middle East, via Iran and Iraq.
This  is  Zaki Laïdi’s first book devoted to Barack Obama’s foreign policies.

Zaki Laïdi is a professor at the Centre for European Studies at Sciences Po. His work tackles the transformation (of structures and ideas) in the international system. His most noted books are La Grande Perturbation (Flammarion, 2004), La Norme sans la force. L’énigme de la puissance européenne (Presse de Sciences Po, 2005), Sortir du pessimisme social and, co-written with Gérard Grunberg, Essai sur l’identité de la gauche (Hachette Littératures/Presses de Sciences Po, 2007).