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Your Call: President Obama's foreign policy legacy

What is President Obama’s foreign policy legacy?

Boston University’s Andrew Bacevich, and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Stephen Walt, two prominent foreign policy scholars, will reflect on the past eight years.

 In 2008, President Obama promised to end the Iraq War and win the war in Afghanistan. Eight years later, what is his legacy and what powers is he leaving for Donald Trump? Join us live at 10 am, on Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.  
 
Guests : 

Andrew Bacevich, professor of International Relations and History at Boston University

Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Web Resources : 

The Nation : How decades of disappointment won the election for Donald Trump

Foreign Policy : Stealing Elections Is All In The Game

Foreign Policy : Syria Will Stain Obama’s Legacy Forever

Focus Economics : Economic Snapshot of Sub Saharan Africa 

New York Times : Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Team : Built to Fail 

The Guardian : America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. What a bloody end to Obama's reign

 

 

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.