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May 5, 2015 by Ted 25 Comments

Christopher Hitchens – Is Obama’s Foreign Policy Working? [2010]

Christopher Hitchens - Is Obama's Foreign Policy Working? [2010]

September 22, 2010.

Elebash Recital Hall, New York.

Christopher Hitchens, Peter Beinart, George Packer.
The panel discussed America's position in, and relationship to, the rest of the world under Obama and whether or not his foreign policy has been effective.

What kind of foreign policy will the world's second largest economy pursue under Xi Jinping's leadership and what will be the focal points? Linda Jakobson, East Asia Program Director at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, assesses the main foreign policy challenges facing China's new leaders. She also elaborates on recent foreign policy appointments made in the government realignment following the National People's Congress and sheds light on the implications of the make-up of China's foreign policy leadership.

Linda Jakobson has lived and worked in China for 20 years and published six books about China and East Asian society. A Mandarin speaker, she has published extensively on China's foreign and security policy, the Taiwan Strait, China's energy security, and climate change and science & technology polices.

Prior to joining the Lowy Institute, Ms Jakobson served as Director of the China and Global Security Programme and Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). From 1998 to 2009 she worked for the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.

Ms Jakobson was a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1990. The Finnish edition of her book, A Million Truths: A Decade in China (M. Evans, New York, 1998) won the Finnish Government Publication Award. Her SIPRI Policy Paper, New Foreign Policy Actors in China (co-authored with Dean Knox) was awarded an Alibi in 2010. She has written two Lowy Institute publications: Australia-China Ties: in Search of Political Trust (2012) and China's Foreign Policy Dilemma (2013).

This presentation is part of the National Security College's public seminar series. The National Security College is a joint initiative of the Commonwealth Government and ANU.
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Comments

  1. Putin ist мой Führer says

    May 5, 2015 at 11:02 pm

    The very fact they’re talking about Iran in 2010 as the main US foreign
    policy issue, tells me his FP was working.

    Reply
  2. aaronsdavis says

    May 5, 2015 at 11:31 pm

    If you analyse what Iran does rather than says, it’s quite clear that their
    main concern is for survival. Their actions are very well considered in
    advance, pre-planned and professionally executed. They talk like radical
    Islamists but act like any other modern nation state, that is to say, in
    their own best interests. Iran wishes to acquire nuclear weapons as a
    deterrent. They are not building nukes to launch a strike against Israel,
    knowing it would result in their own utter annihilation, but rather to
    deter an Israeli strike with the threat of retaliation. Iranian nukes may
    even moderate their militant impulses by reducing their insecurity. In any
    case, it’s not clear that an air strike can destroy their enrichment
    capabilities, and a ground offensive and occupation would be a disaster
    dwarfing that of the invasion of Iraq.

    Reply
  3. markyy54 says

    May 6, 2015 at 12:09 am

    Iran is run by a mafia clergy through fear and favour and for those who
    dare criticise them, slow death by hanging.

    Reply
  4. ramajama4lif . says

    May 6, 2015 at 12:37 am

    Being a Fiscal Conservative/Social Liberal/Foreign Policy Hawk, I often
    find my self at odds with Mr Hitchens opinions, but I will say that I
    respect him. His arguments are tempered with an extensive knowledge of
    history and anchored in both reason and reality. Which, unfortunately, I
    cannot say about many of his contemporaries.

    Reply
  5. peter tuann says

    May 6, 2015 at 1:09 am

    partition Iraq, leave Afghanistan ASAP, let the Pakistanis take over, USA
    can use drones to patrol Afghanistan’s sky, looking down to seek and kill
    Al Quaeda training camps

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  6. hudhastings1 says

    May 6, 2015 at 2:07 am

    wheres his hair

    Reply
  7. GLICKTON says

    May 6, 2015 at 2:37 am

    Hitchens should of stuck to what he really knew about, “religion”. this is
    well outdated, look what obama has done after this debate. i really cant
    agree with hitchens on much here but that is probably because he was fed bs
    himself at the time. played like a fiddle. on the matter of religion
    though, he could never of been beaten. 

    Reply
  8. SIBORG90 says

    May 6, 2015 at 2:55 am

    Reply
  9. peter tuann says

    May 6, 2015 at 2:58 am

    agreed USA should back INDIA, over Pakistan, Pakistan is a failing state,
    getting worse, supporting our enemies, while taking our money

    Reply
  10. Lola Winchester says

    May 6, 2015 at 3:10 am

    Yes. Yes, he was. Quite likely rendering you wrong on a lot of positions.

    Reply
  11. Erich B. says

    May 6, 2015 at 4:07 am

    trololol 😉

    Reply
  12. joe caveman says

    May 6, 2015 at 4:49 am

    Uhm uhm uhm. Does nobody tell people to stop saying uhm all the time? You
    can’t take a breath without saying uhm. You have the floor, you aren’t
    going to be interrupted, just shut up for a damn second if you must. This
    is hard to listen to, brutal.

    Reply
  13. RipTheJackR says

    May 6, 2015 at 5:40 am

    In other words, it seems like got this nailed down, though “No position” is
    a bit harsh, he was good at somethings, really bad at other, particular in
    the details of the hard sciences and intuitions granted by gene
    selectionism in regards to social and societal behavior, with that
    background of information im sure he woulda been even more brilliant and
    insightful than he was. Read my first hitchbook back in 1999. Never cared
    for God Is Not Great.

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  14. Shain Rochester says

    May 6, 2015 at 6:34 am

    You just may be correct in that statement.

    Reply
  15. fungusrare says

    May 6, 2015 at 7:01 am

    You might find yourself agreeing with him more and more as you understand
    his perspective.

    Reply
  16. thebytegrill says

    May 6, 2015 at 7:48 am

    Really disagree with Hitch on Iran as much as I love his mind.

    Reply
  17. colin obiozo says

    May 6, 2015 at 8:35 am

    Right… that guys intro is boooring!

    Reply
  18. polylyth says

    May 6, 2015 at 8:44 am

    Most certainly do not.

    Reply
  19. jedaaa says

    May 6, 2015 at 9:18 am

    to be fair anyone could see something like that happening and i for one
    remember (as a guy in the U.K) thinking the London bombings were way
    overdue so i’m actually staggered that the kind of incident in Boston only
    happened now. and i’m someone who doesn’t think for a second terrorist
    motives such as that are anywhere near as widespread as we’re told to
    assume!

    Reply
  20. jeffreydebra1 says

    May 6, 2015 at 9:43 am

    1:02:05 is the most interesting until the end.

    Reply
  21. David Russell-Smith says

    May 6, 2015 at 10:12 am

    Now, now. It’s always worth tipping the hat to a man who will play with
    ideas he does not accept.

    Reply
  22. Richard Wheybrew says

    May 6, 2015 at 10:48 am

    Starts around 4:52

    Reply
  23. UNHOLY GOD says

    May 6, 2015 at 10:50 am

    RIP Christopher Hitchens (legend) though at least we have his good friend
    Dawkin to carry on his legacy

    Reply
  24. RipTheJackR says

    May 6, 2015 at 10:57 am

    Did you know that we also have evidence of the US doing terror attacks
    around the world? Ill never understand how Hitchens managed to not spot how
    intellectually dishonest he is about US aggression around the world.Yes
    religion is a problem, causing chaos and maintaining economic imbalances
    around the world will certainly only make the clergy more powerful.And Iran
    is clearly not viewed as such a horrible regime that Hitchens make it out
    to be,Qatar = worse, SArabia =Worse.He was brilliant tho.

    Reply
  25. john coffey says

    May 6, 2015 at 11:46 am

    I dont think I’ve as much fun watching an intellectual conversation as I do
    when hitchens is apart of that conversation. He speaks with such rigor and
    knowledge. Its too bad he left without someone to replace him.

    Reply

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