Obama : the first mestizo leader north of the border
By: FUENTES, Carlos
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ArticlePublisher: Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, Winter 2009New Perspectives Quarterly : NPQ 26, 1, p. 34Abstract: America is more a creed than a nation. Our promise has always been that all individuals, despite race, religion or gender, have the equal chance to make it. The election of Barack Hussein Obama as president of the United States is thus a "soft power" coup for America's global image, which had lost its luster during the Bush years. Obama is the anti-Bush who will lead by the power of example instead of the example of power. Yet, there are real limits. Can the power of example stop the North Korean or Iranian nuclear programs? Can it stop jihadists bent on establishing a new Caliphate across South Asia? Can it limit China's ambitions as the new power in Asia? In this section commentators from across the world offer their views.
America is more a creed than a nation. Our promise has always been that all individuals, despite race, religion or gender, have the equal chance to make it. The election of Barack Hussein Obama as president of the United States is thus a "soft power" coup for America's global image, which had lost its luster during the Bush years. Obama is the anti-Bush who will lead by the power of example instead of the example of power. Yet, there are real limits. Can the power of example stop the North Korean or Iranian nuclear programs? Can it stop jihadists bent on establishing a new Caliphate across South Asia? Can it limit China's ambitions as the new power in Asia? In this section commentators from across the world offer their views.
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