He has been at the forefront of issues and legislation related to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.
On the forefront will be issues like nationalism, as a Nasdaq-NYSE tie-up would have an American rather than a German exchange gobble up the storied NYSE.
Where economic issues have taken the forefront in political discussions, social issues like the legality of abortion or capital punishment appear to have been placed on the back burner of political debates.
