Battleground Budget
Michael Spence outlines the conflicting objectives that President Obama and the U.S. Congress must reconcile as they negotiate a new federal...
Speaker: Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, CFR; Editor at Large, New Republic
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
November 6, 2008
Listen to Peter Beinart, senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at CFR and editor at large for the New Republic, discuss the election results and foreign policy priorities facing President-elect Obama as part of CFR's Academic Conference Call Series.
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