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The world after Bush
Marwan Bishara looks at what an Obama foreign policy may mean for the world.
Last Modified: 06 Nov 2008 11:57 GMT



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The world is still coming to terms with the election of Barack Obama to arguably the most powerful job in the world, president of the United States.

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However, after eight years of a George Bush presidency that has encompassed the 9/11 attacks in New York, bloody and interminable wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now the global financial crisis, Obama will face many challenges on the world stage.

In a special one-hour show, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst Marwan Bishara looks at what impact Obama's foreign policy will have on the world.

The panel analyse the Bush legacy and its consequences for Obama's presidency. They also question how much of a departure from Bush's policies or doctrine will be possible.

What will president Obama
mean for the world? [AFP]
It is still also very early to predict what specifically an Obama foreign policy will mean to people in the rest of the world and what the election of the country's first African-American president says about the US today.

Obama has written that his views were first shaped by how people reacted to America's promotion of capitalism, its tolerance and occasional encouragement of tyranny.

President-elect Obama would seem to be ideally placed to understand the hostility towards America in the South and particularly in the Arab and Islamic worlds.

As an African-American arrives in the White House and the US enters a new dawn of leadership, Al Jazeera asks whether this means an end to the US wars abroad.


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