http://online.wsj.com/articles/bret-stephens-obama-survival-manual-intl-edition-1413242790
Obama Survival Manual, Intl. Edition
If you think 2014 has been a year of unraveling and disorder, just wait.
By Bret Stephens
Refugees in eastern Ukraine, casualties of American retreat.ILLUSTRATION: Reuters
So Paul Krugman, who once called onAlan Greenspan "to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble"; who, a few months before the eurozone crisis erupted, praised Europe as "an economic success" that "shows that social democracy works"; who, as the U.S. fracking revolution was getting under way, opined that America was "just a bystander" in a global energy story defined by "peak oil"; and who, in 2012, hailed Argentina's economy as a "remarkable success story"—this guy now tells us, in Rolling Stone magazine, that Barack Obama has been a terrific president.
Which can only mean that the next two years are going to be exceptionally ugly. How to get through them?
"Global View" analyzes ongoing developments in foreign affairs, with a particular focus on American strategy and geopolitics. The column appears on the Wall Street Journal's website every Monday evening and Tuesdays in print.
Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is a former deputy editorial page editor for the Wall Street Journal and member of the paper's editorial board. He wrote "Global View," the Wall Street Journal's foreign-affairs column, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2013. He was also a regular panelist on the Journal Editorial Report, a weekly political talk show broadcast on Fox News Channel.
Mr. Stephens joined the Journal in 1998 as an op-ed editor and moved to Brussels the following year, where he wrote editorials and edited a column on the European Union. He left the paper in January 2002 to become editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, a position he assumed at age 28. At the Post he was responsible for the paper's news, editorial, international and digital editions. He also wrote a weekly column.
Mr. Stephens returned to the Journal in late 2004 and has reported stories from around the globe. His other awards include a South Asian Journalists Association prize for his coverage of the Kashmir earthquake (2006), the Breindel Prize for excellence in opinion journalism (2008), the Bastiat Prize for his columns on economic subjects (2010) and the University of Chicago's Professional Achievement Award (2014). In 2005 he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2016 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Niagara University.
Mr. Stephens is author of "America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder," published by Sentinel Books in 2014.
Mr. Stephens was born in the U.S. and raised in Mexico City. He has an undergraduate degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago, and a Master's from the London School of Economics. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
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