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Air Force One: the US recently took its new foreign policy model on tour (Photo: The White House)

New US foreign policy could be misunderstood

The past three weeks have been extremely rich in US statements on its updated policy for the post-Soviet space.

President 
Barack Obama on 6 July paid a visit to Moscow. To counterbalance that trip
 and demonstrate that the US pays no less importance to other countries in
 the region, top US officials also hit the diplomatic circuit.


Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg visited the Armenian capital
 on 11 July with new proposals on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. State Sec...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Air Force One: the US recently took its new foreign policy model on tour (Photo: The White House)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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