Obama's Real Legacy: Putting Foreign Policy Where It Doesn't Belong
Decisionmaking has moved away from the cabinet and toward a staff of loyalists in the White House.
Nikolas K. Gvosdev, a contributing editor at the National Interest, is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. The views expressed here are his own personal assessments.
Image: President Barack Obama gives a speech in Nordea Concert Hall, Tallinn, Estonia. Flickr/Creative Commons/Johan Viirok