Wishful Thinking and the Europeans
This may be my second link to a post from
Tech Central Station. This is interesting merely because it is an unlikely source for foreign policy news. Either they are changing their focus or foreign policy is becoming much more widely accessible. So, on to our topic, the question posed by our link-of-the-day is, "If John Kerry is elected President would there necessarily be a fundamental change in American foreign policy?" Meelis Kitsing, of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, takes a look a recent discussion on U.S. foreign policy held at the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and suggests that we and our European allies could expect a change in style rather than substance.
U.S. Role in the Latin America and the Caribbean
Turning our attention today to our own backyard. What should be the U.S. role in Latin America and the Caribbean? John Lindsay-Poland, in
Foreign Policy in Focus, suggests that the United States should rethink its strategy and reduce its military bases in Latin America and the Caribbean. He believes the military presence elevates tension in the region, drains manpower that could be put tobetter use, and causes environmental devastation.
America's Moment in South Asia
Today's topic, American influence in South Asia. Dr Ahmad Faruqui, an economist and member of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR), suggests in this essay that there are many indications that the United States is losing influence in South Asia.
The Kerry Doctrine
According to John Kerry, the U.S. has historically only gone to war when we had to. Robert Kagan of the
Washington Post takes a look at our amazing national amnesia, willful self-delusion, and campaign sloganeering.
Kerry's military advisers criticize Bush policies
Scripps Howard News Service talkes a look at recent comments by the likely Kerry foreign policy team, including: retired Gen. John Shalikashvili, former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Clinton administration; James Rubin, the Clinton administration's State Department Spokesman; Susan Rice, who oversaw Africa policies at the State Department under the Clinton Administration; and, Robert Beers, former member of the National Security Council.
