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The America Issue

As the 2012 U.S. presidential election gets under way, FP’s America Issue looks at the state of the union, at home and abroad. In this special section, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argues that the future of U.S. foreign policy points toward Asia, while FP columnist James Traub takes the measure of the Republican candidates ...

By FP Staff

| October 11, 2011, 1:09 AM

As the 2012 U.S. presidential election gets under way, FP’s America Issue looks at the state of the union, at home and abroad. In this special section, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argues that the future of U.S. foreign policy points toward Asia, while FP columnist James Traub takes the measure of the Republican candidates vying for Barack Obama’s job. Meanwhile, six writers from around the globe put the world’s ailing superpower on the couch, telling FP what America gets wrong — from imperial hubris to energy gluttony — and Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum, and Steven M. Walt ponder the question that no presidential candidate can afford to ask: Just how special is America, anyway?

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