(By R.K. Ramazani, professor emeritus of government and foreign affairs) President George W. Bush persistently invoked the primacy of the goal of globalization of democracy as the centerpiece of American foreign policy. … Looking at the mammoth crisis engulfing the entire Middle East region – from Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to the rest of the region – President Barack Obama has taken a decidedly different approach to foreign policy, seeking to create a method calibrated to each society on its own terms.