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...Bush and Clinton plans are strikingly similar, and both still see the planet as a dangerous place where the occasional use of American force will likely be necessary for decades to come. From there, their prescriptions for dealing with the post-cold war world depart radically. Bush regularly trumpets democracy's virtues, but his actions routinely serve order and stability. Following the gulf war, the U.S. virtually "owned" Kuwait, but Washington did little to ensure democracy's ascendancy in the emirate. Yugoslavia is disintegrating, but Bush has yet to recognize Slovenia and Croatia. The President clung to Mikhail Gorbachev...
...will further exacerbate, a more general malaise that is % diluting the country's international influence -- precisely when, at a critical time of transition, the European Community needs Paris' traditional leadership more than ever. The French are worried that their country is failing to find a new role in the post-cold war world and that within Europe it is being overshadowed by the rise of a unified and vibrant Germany. Should they assert themselves vigorously and strive to lead the new Europe or retreat into a kind of Gallic stockade and preoccupy themselves with domestic concerns? The regional elections pointed...
Still, the missions reinforce the consensual approach of the post-cold war era and affirm a tenet held dear by U.N. diplomats: the price of peace, while steep, is ultimately less costly than letting war rage. The challenges ahead...
...Administration has done well at responding competently to events as they've occurred, but they haven't developed a strategy for the post-cold war world," says Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East. "Our foreign policy has been too crisis oriented...
...suffering enormously from the lack of an integrated approach that makes foreign economic policy a primary task of the post-cold war effort," says Peter Tarnoff, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. "Baker's a natural to play that role, and if he's not doing it, it's not being done...