Word: pacificism
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John Hay, Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of State, once called the Pacific the "ocean of the future." Bill Clinton hopes the future starts this week. Just two days after Congress votes up or down on NAFTA, the President plans to meet in Seattle with leaders from 14 other Pacific Rim...
This week's summit is actually a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, a four-year-old association of 11 Asian nations and the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. At this point, it amounts to little more than a trade-issues study group. Though Washington has avoided...
It is no secret that the North Koreans are actively trying to establish a nuclear weapons program, which would threaten to destabilize the balance of power in East Asia. The possibility is so real, in fact, that Clinton visited Japan last summer not only to discuss trade issues, but to...
Hayden claims that Soka University in Los Angeles is taking advantage of its Pacific Basin Research Center, a grant program funded by Soka and directed by John D. Montgomery, Ford Foundation professor of international studies emeritus at the Kennedy School of Government, to gain support for a large-scale expansion...
"Tom Hayden has made a virtual cottage industry out of attacking Soka," said Jeff Ourvan, a spokesperson for the university. "Soka does not use Harvard's logo, it does not refer to itself as an `affiliate' of Harvard, and in fact rarely publicizes the Pacific Basin Research Center."