Foreign Policy: Obama Mended Some Ties and Strained Others

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By Claire Suddath and Christopher Power

October 11, 2012 at 11:12 PM UTC

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This article is part of the October 15, 2012 issue of businessweek.

President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize heralded “a new climate in international politics,” and certainly there have been changes in U.S. foreign relations since George W. Bush’s administration.