f the U.S. government had wanted to destroy Russia from the inside out, it couldn’t have devised a more effective policy than its so-called “strategic partnership.”
Containment Lite: U.S. Policy Toward Russia and Its Neighbors
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Continuing Storm: The U.S. Role in the Middle East
This Special Report is from Global Focus: U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Millennium, the new Foreign Policy In Focus book that features major foreign policy analysts charting the dimensions of U.S. foreign policy. Also included are provocative essays on U.S. policy in all major global regions and a comprehensive reform agenda. Global Focus is available from St. Martin’s Press.
Aid to Russia
Key Points
Peru
Key Points
U.S.-Iraq Conflict
Key Points
United States Information Agency
Key Points
Nicaragua
Key Points
Asia/Pacific Overview
For the cold war generation, U.S. foreign policy toward the Asia/Pacific region was simple, straightforward, and secure. In the minds of America’s foreign policy and defense elites, the only point of reference that mattered was the Soviet Union; everything else flowed from there. That proved true whether Washington was taking sides in the long-standing dispute between India and Pakistan, warming to China, or reacting to Japan’s growing trade imbalance. It was true whether the U.S. was dealing with any of the three subregions: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, or South Asia.
Haiti
Key Problems
Islamists and U.S. Policy
Key Problems