Nobel Geopolitics
U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize last week.
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The peace prize committee is therefore a committee of politicians, some present members of parliament, some former members of parliament.
Three come from the left (Jagland, Ronbeck and Valle). Two come from the right (Kullman and Ytterhorn).
It is reasonable to say that the peace prize committee faithfully reproduces the full spectrum of Norwegian politics.
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Therefore, the award to Obama was neither more or less odd than some of the previous awards made by five Norwegian politicians no one outside of Norway had ever heard of.
But his win does give us an opportunity to consider an important question, namely, why Europeans generally think so highly of Obama.
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