{"id":1606,"date":"2009-12-14T07:25:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T11:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2009-12-14T07:44:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T11:44:35","slug":"obamas-approach-to-russia-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2009\/12\/obamas-approach-to-russia-and-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Obama&#8217;s Approach to Russia and Iran&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From MESH Admin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/12\/russia_iran_obama_katz.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1607\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/12\/Katzcover.jpg\" alt=\"Katzcover\" width=\"262\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/12\/Katzcover.jpg 262w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/12\/Katzcover-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a>A journalist has described President Obama&#8217;s approach to foreign policy as &#8220;applying the same tools to international diplomacy that he once used as a community organizer on Chicago&#8217;s South Side.&#8221; In a new number of <em>Middle East Papers<\/em>, Mark N. Katz explains why these tools are likely to be ineffective in influencing Iran&#8217;s nuclear drive and Russia&#8217;s willingness to cooperate with the United States to stop it. (The paper originated in a recent lecture at New York University.) <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/12\/russia_iran_obama_katz.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Download here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MESH Admin A journalist has described President Obama&#8217;s approach to foreign policy as &#8220;applying the same tools to international diplomacy that he once used as a community organizer on Chicago&#8217;s South Side.&#8221; In a new number of Middle East Papers, Mark N. Katz explains why these tools are likely to be ineffective in influencing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[622,2991,2223,2579,2317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-mark-n-katz","category-nuclear","category-russia","category-sanctions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}