ACCRA, Ghana -- President Barack Obama, giving major addresses in four foreign capitals in his first half-year in office, has tried to define what aides call a new era of American diplomacy: a rhetorical balance of "tough" and "love."

In Prague, Cairo, Moscow and then here on Saturday, Mr. Obama tried to show his willingness to engage in diplomacy on the basis of mutual self-interests, aides say, and defined his top concerns: nuclear proliferation, terrorism, energy security, and effective governance and development in the Third World.

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