Josef Joffe, editor of the German weekly Die Zeit, gives some reminders of Diplomacy 101.
Hans Morgenthau would have been proud. An excerpt:
George W. Bush was heartily disliked in Europe west of Warsaw, and Mr. Obama is universally loved. But how well does that popularity translate into power? How far could President Obama push his agenda with, say, German Chancellor Angela Merkel or French President Nicolas Sarkozy? About as far as you can throw a piano.
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