Eight Months of Obama's Diplomacy

On Washington and Moscow's Rivalry
Obama visits Russian President Dmitri Medvedev at his dacha in Russia in July 2009. During that trip, Obama said, "In 2009, a great power does not show strength by dominating or demonizing other countries. The days when empires could treat sovereign states as pieces on a chess board are over ... given our interdependence, any world order that tries to elevate one nation or one group of people over another will inevitably fail. The pursuit of power is no longer a zero-sum game — progress must be shared."

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