international security: winter 1996/97, cambridge, massachusetts
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International Security: Winter 1996/97, Cambridge, MassachusettsAuthor(s): Kai WrightSource: Foreign Policy, No. 107 (Summer, 1997), p. 154Published by: Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, LLCStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1149353 .
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agrees that China has the power to destabilize the region, but he maintains that China is too weak to become an Asian hegemon and is only trying to preserve the status quo. Political columnist Anne Applebaum's profile of Britain's Labour Party leader Tony Blair sug- gests that he may have studied at Bill Clinton's international house of waffling. Former ABC and NBC chief foreign news correspondent Garrick Utley asserts that the foreign correspondent is becoming an endangered species because of new technologies and increased com- petition from cable networks. And in a letter to the editor, former assistant secretary of state Richard Holbrooke repeats his position that partitioning Bosnia would be bad policy.
-Molly Millett
International Security Winter 1 996/97
Cambridge, Massachusetts
In "Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy," national security and defense specialists Barry Posen and Andrew Ross impose order upon the chaotic struggle to find a guiding light for American foreign policy in the coming millennium. The authors oXer concise analyses of the predominant paradigms and then ferret out a theme for the first Clinton administration's foreign policy. Unfortunately, in line with their limited goal of seeking to "sharpen the public debate, not settle it," Posen and Ross stop short of recommending a path. Meanwhile, in "Responding to State Failure in Africa," Woodrow Wilson School pro- fessor Jeffrey Herbst argues that current aid efforts are ineXective, because they focus on rebuilding states that were not viable to begin with. He urges the international community tO begin exploring alter- native structures to the nation-state in Africa. But while Herbst points to a number of starting points for this exploration, such as encouraging subnational units to participate in international organizations, he leaves most questions about the implementation of new approaches unan- swered.
Kai Wnght
agrees that China has the power to destabilize the region, but he maintains that China is too weak to become an Asian hegemon and is only trying to preserve the status quo. Political columnist Anne Applebaum's profile of Britain's Labour Party leader Tony Blair sug- gests that he may have studied at Bill Clinton's international house of waffling. Former ABC and NBC chief foreign news correspondent Garrick Utley asserts that the foreign correspondent is becoming an endangered species because of new technologies and increased com- petition from cable networks. And in a letter to the editor, former assistant secretary of state Richard Holbrooke repeats his position that partitioning Bosnia would be bad policy.
-Molly Millett
International Security Winter 1 996/97
Cambridge, Massachusetts
In "Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy," national security and defense specialists Barry Posen and Andrew Ross impose order upon the chaotic struggle to find a guiding light for American foreign policy in the coming millennium. The authors oXer concise analyses of the predominant paradigms and then ferret out a theme for the first Clinton administration's foreign policy. Unfortunately, in line with their limited goal of seeking to "sharpen the public debate, not settle it," Posen and Ross stop short of recommending a path. Meanwhile, in "Responding to State Failure in Africa," Woodrow Wilson School pro- fessor Jeffrey Herbst argues that current aid efforts are ineXective, because they focus on rebuilding states that were not viable to begin with. He urges the international community tO begin exploring alter- native structures to the nation-state in Africa. But while Herbst points to a number of starting points for this exploration, such as encouraging subnational units to participate in international organizations, he leaves most questions about the implementation of new approaches unan- swered.
Kai Wnght
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