Yet Mr Obama cannot escape questions about how much Congress will let him do.Though presidents have wide foreign-policy powers, the Senate must ratify new treaties, and congressional control of spending gives members great sway.
She immediately announced that she intended to pursue a feminist foreign policy and went on to explain, in a talk in the U.S., that "striving toward gender equality is not only a goal in itself but also a precondition for achieving our wider foreign, development, and security-policy objectives".
Circumstances and public opinion played their part, but so did Mr Gove himself, whom colleagues find "amazing" and "intimidatingly clever" when making a case.Because Europe has exercised the party for so long, the Tories' divisions over wider foreign policy are overlooked.
He moves on to deplore Slovakia's language law (the subject of much international criticism, and subsequently softened) and the lack of self-government structures for ethnic minorities there (which contrasts, he maintains, with the elaborate provisions for ethnic minorities in Hungary).It is time to move on to wider foreign policy.
There may also be wider foreign policy differences between some of the parliamentary Labour party and Livingstone, who has said western interventions have "come back to haunt us" and told Channel 4 that Britain and America are "totally discredited" because of Afghanistan and Iraq.
However, by pressuring Serbia to drop its plan, they only serve to entrench doubts about the legitimacy of Kosovo's declaration of independence, and, in the case of EU members, undermine the European Union's wider foreign policy goals in the Balkans and beyond.
Currently, for example, the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, established under the direction of the White House to "coordinate, orient, and inform government-wide foreign communication activities against terrorism," has an outreach team that counters terrorist propaganda in Arabic, Urdu, Somali, Punjabi and English, but not Russian.
Unlike diplomacy's narrower high-level connections, public diplomacy seeks to reach wider foreign audiences--often through cultural diplomacy.
Several officials involved in Iraq policy said they expected that Iraq would sooner or later change such Bremer-era laws as those allowing extensive foreign investment and wide latitude for foreign companies to operate in Iraq.
With World Trade Organization membership expected to open the domestic market wider to foreign companies, foreigners could take over a huge part of the economy unless China unleashes private entrepreneurs soon.
