The renovation of infrastructure, the launch of an efficient, green industry and the improvement of the health care and social security systems: these are the three pillars of Obama’s political economy to respond to the crisis. The risks? Racking up an exorbitant public deficit and adding more difficulties to his term, say the skeptics.

• Barack Obama's problem
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A policy of pressure on the Afghan government, combined with the outstretched hand that the appointment of Richard Holbrooke constitutes: this is the strategy that the new American administration is hoping to implement in order to stabilize Afghanistan, a country that could not be conquered by neither the Greeks, the British nor the Russians, and whose instability threatens to spread throughout the region.

Barack Obama has done more for the environment in a week than George W. Bush in eight years. However, the road is littered with obstacles, and the economic difficulties and challenges abroad can strongly influence any green advancement in the future.

• The ecologist movement gathers force in the United States
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This very serious crisis and the arrival of a leader with ideas have coincided. Obama has brought back hope for another renaissance to the world.

While Obama has raised many hopes and achieved a rhetorical break with the totalitarian language of the Bush administration, his choice of advisers indicates regression rather than progression. Yet if his promise turns out to be meretricious, the world’s rocky relationship with the United States will deteriorate even further.

Learn why the enormous expectations placed on the president-elect of the United States are precisely Obama’s biggest problem.

• Barack Obama, the dream chaser
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Iraq. Afghanistan. The Middle East. Terrorism. Energy. The economic crisis. Poverty. Understand why the United States will return to multilateralism in order to try to solve each of these global issues.

• A new American foreign policy in the Middle East?
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According to the author, the success of Obama’s foreign policy depends on the resolution of difficult relations with Iran, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the war in Iraq. For this, it will be necessary to put long-term interests over short term ones, which, in turn, will allow for a more efficient fight against terrorism.

• The United States, with its hands tied in foreign policy
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Unemployment, fiscal and union reforms, immigration policies, respect for human and civil rights…these are some of the domestic challenges that Obama faces. What he proposes during these transition months will be key for the future of the American economy and society.