Foreign Policy for a Democratic President - Foreign Affairs
Former National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger offers some advice to John Kerry in this second in a series of essays on foreign policy concerns for the next president. A Republican view is scheduled for the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs.
Neoconservative Kristol Discusses Foreign Policy - Columbia Daily Spectator
"A small group of primarily conservative admirers turned out to hear political analyst and commentator Bill Kristol speak last night in Roone Arledge Cinema. Bill Kristol is currently the editor of the The Weekly Standard and is one of the country's most well-known neoconservative political analysts. In addition, Kristol often is a political commentator on the Fox News Channel. In a speech hosted by the Columbia Political Union, Kristol spoke on his views about current politics, focusing heavily on the Bush Administration's foreign policy and the upcoming presidential elections. 'The single most important thing in understanding U.S. foreign policy is the importance of September 11,' Kristol said at the beginning of his speech. Kristol went on to say that U.S. foreign policy could be broken up into two eras: the Cold War Era, and the 90s Era of general 'prosperity and peace.' According to Kristol, the 90s Era ended with Sept. 11."
Missile Obsession Distorted Threat Priorities - CEIP
Joseph Cirincione writes that the emphasis placed by the administration on national missile defense was one of the major reasons the US was so unprepared for terrorist attacks.
U.S. National Security Doctrines - American Diplomacy
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American Diplomacy website: A Philadelphia attorney who writes frequently on international relations examines the eight major national security policies that have evolved during the 227 years of United States history. He identifies them as Washington's Farewell Address, the Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, the Open Door, Off-Shore Balancer, Containment, Liberation, and, currently, Preemption. He points out that these doctrines have usually evolved in response to specific challenges and that, over all, they have served America well. In discussing Preemption he expresses hope that the new American security doctrine will prove as "pragmatic, prudent, and far-sighted as its predecessors."
Suspicion about China threat to US reinforced - Manila Times
US Vice President Dick Cheney’s long-held suspicion that China is a key strategic threat to the United States may have been reinforced by his first official visit to that country last week, experts say.
