Professor Rosemary Foot writes on US diplomacy missing the party in Asia

Rosemary Foot has written an article for e-International Relations (13 November) about US President Obama's cancellation of his visit to the 2013 APEC [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation] summit. The article is entitled 'The US Rebalance Off-Balance: Missing the Party in Asia'.

Rosemary writes, "[I]t is not just any US President, but one who had made much of his 'Pacific' roots, who had lived for a time in Indonesia, and had promised in a dramatic way that the US was 'back' in Asia, and meant to stay. The disappointment at Obama’s absence is felt far more keenly because of the promise associated with his personal history."

The full article can be read here: http://www.e-ir.info/2013/11/13/the-us-rebalance-off-balance-missing-the-party-in-asia/

You can also read it on Politics in Spires: http://politicsinspires.org/us-rebalance-balance-missing-party-asia/