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The Obama administration and multilateralism: Europe relegated
24/02/2010 By Richard Gowan
In this policy brief, Richard Gowan assesses multilateral cooperation under the Obama administration. President Obama has claimed that the United States can lead a radical reorientation of international cooperation, and the effects of this have already been observed in Europe with the rise of the G20.
Some within Europe fear that the US has embarked on a transformation of the international system without a clear grasp of the consequences.
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Bio author: Richard Gowan
Richard Gowan is Associate Director, Managing Global Insecurity at the NYU Center on International Cooperation and is affiliated to the Brookings Institution as part of the MGI project. He is also a Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
