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When Barack Obama entered office in January of 2009, expectations were high. His campaign had suggested that he would be a transformational President but soon that ambition was diminished in domestic infighting and the never ending violence in the Middle East. Still, President Obama made good on his promise to “reintroduce America to the world” and established new parameters for Foreign Policy debates and decision making in the United States. Please join us for a review of his legacy and a look ahead to 2017.

Michael Werz is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, where his work as member of the National Security Team focuses on the nexus of climate change, migration, and security and emerging democracies, especially Turkey, Mexico, and Brazil. He has been a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund where his work focused on transatlantic foreign policy and the European Union. He has held appointments as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is a graduate of Frankfurt University’s Institute for Philosophy and was professor at Hannover University in Germany. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s BMW Center for German and European Studies.