Word: mandelbaums
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...assume the planes do finally fly. What exactly will this latest expression of faux muscularity achieve? "Air power alone" won't end the war, says the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It's bombing as therapy," says Michael Mandelbaum, a Johns Hopkins University foreign policy expert who advised Clinton during the campaign. "Therapy for us, that is; proof that we've done something at last -- even if the Serbs simply move their heavy weapons and strike elsewhere, or hunker down till the dust clears." Ground troops could settle the conflict, but Clinton has ruled them out. He says...
...summit has an important script -- coordinating economic policies, stabilizing Russia and rescuing free trade -- but the actors seem far from up to their roles. Says foreign policy analyst Michael Mandelbaum, a friend of President Clinton's who turned down a high U.S. State Department post in January: "What we have in Tokyo is a meeting of the world's strongest countries but the world's weakest leaders." It is, says Michael Aho, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, "the summit of the politically unpopular...
...bottom, government aid can only prime the pump; to get things going effectively will take private money. Only Western business can supply the massive funds Russia needs. Over the long term, says Michael Mandelbaum, professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, "the most important economic contribution the West can make is not assistance at all but access to Western markets." That means trade, which will not flow unless Russia reforms its tax and legal codes enough to assure foreign businessmen they can make, keep and repatriate profits...
...press run by Moscow's central bank (whose chairman is appointed by the parliament Yeltsin doesn't control), the ruble supply has tripled since last July. Now, with the inflation rate approaching 50% a month, no Westerner in his right mind would invest in Russia. For Yeltsin, says Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins University professor who wrote the Clinton transition team's Russia memo, "it's a chicken and egg thing. He'll never be in firm control politically until the economy improves, and the economy won't improve until he takes the the tough economic measures he's been...
Working mostly by phone and fax with Berger and three other foreign policy analysts -- Michael Mandelbaum, Nancy Soderberg and Leon Fuerth -- Lake limited his traveling to Thursday through Monday so he could continue teaching. Clinton gave speeches stressing mainstream foreign policy themes: promoting democracy, a strong but revamped defense and the need for creative thinking on global problems like the environment. He counterpunched on Iraqgate and Irangate. On a few carefully chosen issues like aid to Russia, the need to help Somalia, and punishing Serbia for "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia, the Democrat took positions slightly forward of Bush...