US Foreign Policy in the 1990s

The US in the 1990s faces a changed world, a world that calls for new perspectives on foreign policy. The authors examine many of the critical questions that American policymakers will face in coming years, including: how should the US react to Gorbachev's reforms of the Soviet Union?

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Part 1 Meeting global challenges: the ecology of international change, George P.Schultz; learning from the past without repeating it - advice for the new president, Dante B.Fascell; the challenges to American leadership, Alexander M.Haig; an agenda for the 1990s and beyond, W.W.Rostow; America's role in the world - a congressional perspective, Lee H.Hamilton. Part 2 Perspectives from world leaders: East-West relations and arms control - challenges for the future, Helmut Kohl; the path of maturity in Brazilian-American relations, Jose Sarney. Part 3 Thinking about national security: realism, cohesion and strength - ideas for a new era in international security, Frank C. Carlucci; security, arms and arms control, Raymond L.Garthoff; controlling conventional arms - do the lessons of nuclear arms control apply?, Les Aspin; President Bush's arms control challenge, Paul Doty; toward a grand strategy, David M.Abshire. Part 4 Superpower relations: Soviet-American relations in the Reagan years, Adam B.Ulman; a new era in US-Soviet relations, Claiborne Pell. Part 5 America and the global economy: an appraisal of trade policy during the Reagan administration, Richard N.Cooper; trade, the dollar and the decline of America, Rudiger Dornbusch; whither protectionism?, Robert B.Reich. Part 6 Covert operations and foreign policy: covert action and American foreign policy, David L.Boren; covert action and congressional oversight, John W.Warner; covert military operations and American foreign policy, Nestor D.Sanchez. Part 7 Issues around the world: science, technology and policy in the 1980s, Edward Teller; American foreign policy - a Turkish view, Adnan Kahveci; stalemate and opportunity in Latin America, Robert A.Pastor; the end of American hegemony and the future of US-Japan relations, Chalmers Johnson; US policy toward Africa in the 1990s - challenges, changes and constraints, Henry F.Jackson; 1988 - a year of success at the United Nations, Vernon A.Walters; new challenges and opportunities in Sino-American relations, Michel Oksenberg.