U.S. Foreign Policy After the Cold War: ("Washington Quarterly" Reader)

This timely reader focuses on the broad foreign policy agenda that is emerging in the 1990s. Traditional as well as new policy issues are considered in light of the recent and far-reaching changes that are occurring abroad. The 23 articles selected from "The Washington Quarterly" address such important concerns as the United States in a new era, transformed alliances, regional policies, updated policy instruments, a more complex agenda, and the question of U.S. leadership.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 The United States in a new era: starting at zero - U.S foreign policy for the 1990s, Robert Hunter; the crisis of Leninism and the U.S. response, Robert Scalapino. Part 2 Alliances transformed: the emerging European security order, Hans Binnendijk; Germany, Japan and the false glare of war, Dan Hamilton and James Clad; the Japan-U.S. bilateral relationship - its role in the global economy, Raymond Vernon. Part 3 Regional policies: east central Europe - democracy in retreat?, Jan Zielonka; who killed the Third World?, Richard Bissell; regional order in the 1990s - challenge of the Middle East, Richard Haass; old quarrels and new realities - security in Southern Asia after the Cold War, Rodney Jones; in search of a Latin America policy - the elusive quest, William Perry; after the Cold War - U.S. interests in sub-Saharan Africa, David Newsom. Part 4 Updating policy instruments: can arms control survive peace?, James Goodby; U.S. intelligence in an age of uncertainty - refocusing to meet the challenge,Paula Scalingi; foreign aid for a new world order, John Sewell; the post Cold-War public diplomacy of the United States, Paul Blackburn. Part 5 A more complex agenda: the security challenges of global environmental change, Ian Rowlands; the future of the international trading system, Peter Ludlow; a capital-starved new world order - the geopolitical implications of a global capital shortage in the 1990s, Penelope Harland-Thurberg; global demographic trends to the year 2010 - implications for US securigy, Gregory D. Foster; democracy, conflict and development in the Third World, Robert L. Rothstein; democracy and world order, Brad Roberts. Part 6 Domestic politics and US leadership: the quest for bipartisanship - a new beginning for a new world order, Jay Winik; Congress and US foreign policy - comparative advantage or disadvantage, Robert Pastor; exorcising Wilson's ghost - morality and foreign policy in America's third century, George Weigel; the comeback of liberal internationalism, Richard N. Gardner.