What next in the US ‘pivot’ to Asia? What other priorities will US foreign policy have in President Obama’s second term? How are inbox pressures and legacy aspirations being managed? Ours are times of global historic transition, with a potent and complex mix of issues new and old. Many in the international community continue to look to the United States to help provide the leadership for meeting these global challenges. How best to do so, especially amidst Washington’s own full domestic agenda, is a subject of much debate. Bruce Jentleson, ANU Visiting Fellow, offers his perspective.

Bruce Jentleson is a Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University, where he previously served as Director of the Terry Sanford Institute (now Sanford School) of Public Policy.He is a leading scholar of American foreign policy and has served in a number of US policy and political positions. From 2009-11 he was Senior Advisor to the US State Department Policy Planning Director. In 2012 he served on the Obama 2012 campaign National Security Advisory Steering Committee. He also served as a senior foreign policy advisor to Vice-President Al Gore in his 2000 presidential campaign, in the Clinton administration State Department (1993-94), and as a foreign policy aide to Senator’s Gore (1987-88) and Dave Durenberger (1978-79).

He currently is serving as a member of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Working Group co-chaired by Madeleine Albright and Rich Williamson.

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