This strikes me as naive. Surely the Nobel Prize committee knows they can tie no one's hands. Certain things seem to guarantee an automatic prize, for example ending a war. Theodore Roosevelt got one despite being a militarist because he negotiated the Treaty of Portsmouth that ended the Russo-Japanese War. Henry Kissinger got one for an agreement that ended the Vietnam War, or was supposed to. Likewise for the prizes out of the Camp David accords. Apparently for a US president to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons is also enough for a prize. That he can do little unilaterally is obvious, and I see no reason to doubt his sincerity, but to think that the Nobel Prize committee can control anyone's actions in advance by awarding them a prize is certainly naive.
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> in the case of Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in fact made a pre-emptive strike - or at least that is what I thought at the time, when, based on his promises alone, they awarded Barack Obama the Nobel Prize for Peace thereby effectively tying his hands in advance, the idea being that thereafter, Nobel Peace Laureate Obama could not possibly continue the warpath policy of dropping bombs on Afghanistan etc
John Edward Philips <http://human.cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp/philips/>
International Society, College of Humanities, Hirosaki University
"Homo sum; humani nihil a me alienum puto." -Terentius Afer
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