2010: Obama's road ahead

Posted By Will Inboden Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 5:42 PM Share

This week marks the one-year anniversary of President Obama's inauguration, and along with it has come much commentary evaluating his first year in office. While we at Shadow Government certainly have not shied from offering our own thoughts (and sometimes even letter grades) on the Obama administration's performance thus far, as erstwhile policy-makers ourselves we also want to offer constructive input.

So today, instead of taking a look backward over the past year, we are taking a look forward to the coming year. What follows will be a series of suggestions of specific policy opportunities and/or challenges that the administration will face as this year unfolds.

Asia: Back to the fundamentals By Daniel Blumenthal
Get China right by getting Asia right By Daniel Twining
Stop spending so much on defense By Kori Schake
An Obama-Cameron partnership? By Will Inboden
Holding out for the National Security Strategy By Peter Feaver
It's all about Tehran and Pyongyang By Jamie Fly
Keep an eye on new leaders By José R. Cárdenas
A little "pro-trade" will go a long way By Phil Levy
Push the democratic agenda in Iran, success in Iraq By John Hannah

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