And Mira Woods is co-director of foreign policy in focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.

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They're also likely to have consequences for the Bush administration's foreign policy and its focus in Iraq.

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After visiting Burma, Mr Obama headed to Cambodia to join a meeting of the Association of South East Asian Nations, in a trip that underlines the shift in US foreign policy focus to the Asia-Pacific region.

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More often than not, presidents focus on foreign policy in their second terms.

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The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi, however, says that foreign policy cooperation is the main focus of the talks between Mr Hague and Mr Khurshid, specially the situation in South Asia and the Middle East, particularly Syria.

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The debate, which takes place in Oxford, Mississippi, will focus on foreign policy.

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It is essential that one who might soon become the primary force in the shaping of American foreign policy demonstrate an ability to focus on the importance of gathering the facts and then bring a measured, deliberate approach to understanding and acting on those facts.

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The Center for Security Policy expects that these debates can -- and must -- serve as a long-overdue focus for national consideration of the direction of U.S. foreign and defense policy in the post-Cold War World.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

So to the extent that there are some who have found that the United States has been a little underweighted in Asia in the past, that certainly has been a core focus of the President's efforts on foreign policy, certainly as evidenced by this trip even.

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