October 27, 2016

"The discussion on whether President Barack Obama has ever had a doctrine on foreign policy has been ongoing since 2007. The so-called 'Obama Doctrine' behind his foreign policy might be defined in a variety of ways by different people. Whatever the content of the doctrine is, it consists of a set of basic judgments and ideas about the international context the US is placed in and its relations with the whole world, and provided the president with a conceptual architecture for pursuing his policy toward the outside world in the past eight years.

The international context in 2008 - the shock of the financial crisis and emerging transnational issues like global warming - has required the Obama administration to embrace the multilateralism which reflects the core idea of liberalism, thus distinguishing him thoroughly and clearly from his predecessor who instead strongly endorsed unilateralism."

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