I write to share with you new analysis of President Obama's State of the Union address by three Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) experts.
First, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies James Lindsay, and Director of CFR's Center for Geoeconomic Studies Sebastian Mallaby react to the foreign policy and geoeconomic themes of the President’s address, respectively, in a new Expert Roundup.
Lindsay writes, “President Barack Obama's State of the Union address confirmed what everyone suspected in the wake of the GOP rout in the November 2 midterm elections: foreign policy will play second fiddle to domestic policy when the administration talks about its agenda in the year to come. The mantra going forward will be opportunities, jobs, and growth, not threats, war, and diplomacy.”
On economics, Mallaby writes, “If Obama sees entitlement reform as politically impossible, he must choose between public investment and deficit reduction. His speech sounded far more enthusiastic about the investments, but the deficit should come first.”
Read the full analysis at: http://www.cfr.org/publication/23887.
Stay tuned to Lindsay's blog, "The Water's Edge," for more analysis: . There, you can also read Lindsay’s preview of the speech published earlier today.
Second, CFR’s energy expert Michael Levi reacts to the President’s new goal of generating 80% of America’s electricity from clean sources by 2035. Levi writes: “The big question, of course, is whether this Congress is willing to put in place the incentives that will be needed to meet this objective. I very strongly doubt it. But that does not make it unwise to start having a conversation about how to reach this goal.”
View the full blog post and further analysis at: http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/. Levi can be reached via Twitter at @levi_m.
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