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They were right, as the Administration of George W. Bush implicitly acknowledged in 2001, when Bush sought a strategic partnership with Vladimir Putin, Yeltsin's successor. Talbott's book is a useful reminder of a larger truth: Clinton had his successes. In the 1990s, American policy was bound to be messy, as the world escaped the shadow of the cold war. Often, the best option was to hope that things would turn out better one day and do what little one could to help them along. Clinton's team managed to do that with Russia. That's worth raising...
Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni insists that partnership is necessary for Africa to make progress. But the answer is not simply more aid. "Beggars are tolerated," he says, "but they are not partners." Last week's G-8 summit of industrialized nations in the Canadian resort village of Kananaskis took an important step toward treating Africans as partners rather than beggars. The summit's agenda, in addition to global economic recovery and the fight against terrorism, included a novel plan for African reconstruction. Under the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), African countries would undertake to establish peace...
...annual aid, the cancellation of $1 billion in debt, help in eradicating polio and a peacekeeping force - all in return for reform. The seven countries, which with Russia make up the Group of Eight industrial nations, developed their plan in response to an African initiative called the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Canada mounted its largest peacetime security operation for the G-8 summit. Antiglobalization protesters were allowed no nearer than Calgary, 90 km away from Kananaskis, the meeting site. The only security breach: documents diagraming protocol arrangements for the G-8 leaders were found in a Kananaskis...
...also helped to expand the Straus Center for Conservation, forming a partnership with the Whitney Museum that brought in Carol Mancusi-Ungaro to head up a new Center for the Technical Study for Modern...
...African nations, of course, the issue is not which part of the U.S. government offers them funding, but how much they receive. Four countries headed by South Africa have come up with a proposal called the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), presenting ambitious goals that will require $64 billion a year in new money, most of it from outside the continent...