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Why Award the Nobel Peace Prize to a President Elected Less Than a Year Ago?

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Why Award the Nobel Peace Prize to a President Elected Less Than a Year Ago?

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Barack Obama has distinguished himself with his stress on vision and breaking with American foreign policy. Currently, he is in a delicate phase. He has few intermediaries in the international arena and is paying a price for his solitude. It seems to me that the goal of the Nobel committee was to strengthen the moral authority he is trying to establish. The committee tried to compensate for his solitude by reinforcing the moral authority of the president at a time when it seems to be weakening with respect to international realities. At this time we are witnessing the intellectual redefinition of American foreign policy. It is about profound questioning: questioning the unilateralism advocated by the neoconservatives, questioning the belief in the systematic use of force, questioning the superiority of the West and of western democracy over the rest of the world. What is truly new about Barack Obama’s position is a moderation of tone and a refusal to hold the practices put together in

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