
Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., "Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
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Was There Any Sort of Shift Once Obama Became President?
There was dramatic shift, in the case of the bama administration, particularly with its foreign relations with the philippines. The bombad n killed a lot more civilians through the drone warfare in ways that were quite unprecedented during the bush administration. So i think i'll stop at that s. But the idea there was that it actually deluted the the very strong emphasis on militarism by the previous administration with the royal administration. It made it more possible for a wha, basically facilitated fewer human rights abuses therein.
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