The FT has an excellent, well-researched analysis of how this administration's foreign policy is made. Its main thesis - which confirms but fleshes out what I've read elsewhere - is that, in this area at least, Obama is something of a control freak. This is the most White House-centric administration since Nixon. But Obama doesn't even have a Kissinger. He has a strong team of superb, highly competent and loyal advisers. But he has no grand strategic guru. That role he does himself. This may end up working well, although he is quite clearly learning on the job.
It's significant that Hillary Clinton doesn't even rate a mention in this piece.
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