The Politics of Nobel Prize: The Case of Barack Obama
The Politics of Nobel Prize: The Case of Barack Obama

Summary/Abstract: Barack Obamai is the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace laureate. Yet, admittedly, enormous critiques have followed this decision, however most of the sceptical claims addressed towards the Norwegian Committee, lacked the politicized meaning that the decision intends to reach, as argued by this paper. Following that, this paper goes on to argue that the Nobel Peace Prize is now, with the exception of moral merits, delivering prescriptive political momentums for the grantee, in particular if the grantee is a politician. The same, I argue, applies in the Obama’s case, thus concluding that Nobel Prize is willing to achieve political objectives, rather than acknowledging merits, in the modern era of world politics. From that perspective, this paper builds an argumentation, which considers the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize politics of being highly rational, while, by contrast to the common merit-acknowledgement prizes, this time the Nobel Prize for Obama is arguably aimed at politicizing the Obama’s foreign policy behaviour by means of peaceful attributes.

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