Otherwise his Nobel advance feed the risk of a bubble Obama

In the anglo-saxon educational system, the encouragement above performance. In France, is given rarely a good point, until the student has rendered its copy. Nothing surprising, therefore, that the Nobel Prize for peace awarded to Barack Obama 2009, less than a year after his election, has sometimes been more taunts of praise in Europe. Hailed by Fidel Castro, but ridiculed by Hugo Chavez, the "tempo" of the Obama Nobel necessarily remains a disturbing object in terms of traditional diplomacy. The tenant of the White House did really need encouragement award Skepticism rampant, even the unease felt in the United States, including in the democratic ranks, to further thinking. The question whether if this "poisoned Nobel" will not serve the successor to George Bush.

Judging by the prudence of the recipient, the Nobel Peace Prize is a trophy to handle with caution in internal politics. "To be frank, I do not deserve to be in the company of so many transformational personalities who were honoured by this award", cautiously said Barack Obama, in reference to his illustrious predecessors Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. Without hiding his surprise (feigned or real), he did everything to minimize the scope of the incentive prize - the "triumph of hope over inexperience", as it was called "time" magazine-, which now condemned to a sans-faute on the international scene. Awarded the American President for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", the Nobel Peace Prize aims to reward both a concrete gesture: the abandonment of the anti-missile shield project that George Bush wanted to deploy on Czech and Polish territories, and especially a general attitude: the politics of tense hand. Through three major speeches Cairo, Prague and the United Nations, Barack Obama has already upset the traditional gesture of multilateral diplomacy.

The admission of some experts, by taking the opposite of the policy of his predecessor and in if engaging in a manner determined in the field of disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation, Barack Obama returned to Washington a real credibility on the international scene. Not to mention the payment of the $ 2 billion of arrears of unpaid contributions to the United Nations the United States and the accession to the Council of the human rights of the United Nations boycotted by Washington since its inception in March 2006. Even if its "extraordinary efforts" have yet to bear fruit, the award of the Nobel in Barack Obama would demonstrate to the Iran and the Korea of North that he now has the support of the international community.

Why therefore both American commentators persist therefore to see in the Obama Nobel a poisoned gift "politically dangerous"Of course, one may well wonder on the apparent dithering of Washington on Afghanistan additional troops or the meagre results of the hand extended in Iran policy. "The Americans think that beautiful rhetoric are sufficient to constitute political acts." But the Iranians counter: "where is the meat" Editor's Note: where is the meat "", summarizes a diplomat. " After the Cairo speech on Islam and the West and in Prague on nuclear disarmament, Washington will have to move on now to the "execution phase." A major test will be the review of the nuclear proliferation Treaty in May 2010.

Behind the disorder created by the Nobel in Obama, there is diffuse fear that the speeches are not always acts, in the sense where the philosopher Hegel it. There is also and especially the fear that this incentive award Vienna complicate the task of a President who has created considerable expectations and the first results are expected on the priority plans, in the eyes of the Americans, of the recovery of the economy and the reform of the health. As if the risk of a gap growing between an excess of will on the international scene and an operational fragility internal field could end up seriously harming its credibility in the long term.

In this regard, as on the fight against climate change, reduction of the deficit, or Wall Street bonuses, the urgent priority of Obama is now clear: show that it is able to grant his actions to his speeches. Otherwise, his Nobel advance feed the risk of a "bubble Obama".