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Pivoting Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire?

Obama’s foreign policy “pivot” has been described by The Australian’s Asia-Pacific editor, Rowan Callick, as the embrace of “a new positive narrative — engagement with economically vibrant and mostly democratic Asia — to substitute for the dreadfully negative one of trying to contain terrorism in the Middle East and Afghanistan”. Michael Klare, on the other hand, cas