Global Focus : U. S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Millennium

by Honey, Martha

• ISBN13: 9780312225810
• ISBN10: 0312225814
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-03-16
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Global Focus offers a penetrating critique of current U.S. foreign policy through a series of original essays by leading progressive scholars. This volume portrays the challenges and questions facing Americans and their government at a time when a new global order is being defined by transnational corporations, when the dimensions of U.S. military power bear little relation to threats, and when most global crises call for international solutions. The volume outlines the principles, practices, and policy alternatives that would help to make the U.S. a more responsible global leader and global partner.

Author Biography

Martha Honey is co-founder of the Interhemispheric Resource Center and Director of the Foreign Policy Program.

Tom Barry is Director of the Peace and Security Program at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction Challenges and Conundrums of a New Global Affairs Agenda	xiii
Tom Barry
Money Talks: The Implications of U.S. Budget Priorities	1	(20)
Robert L. Borosage
Military-Industrial Complex Revisited: How Weapons Makers Are Shaping U.S. Foreign and Military Policies	21	(34)
William D. Hartung
Military Strategy Under Review	44	(2)
Carl Conetta
Charles Knight
The Intelligence Apparatus	46	(2)
Kit Gage
Militarization of the U.S. Drug Control Program	48	(2)
Peter Zirnite
NATO at 50	50	(2)
Tomas Valasek
Living (Still) with Nuclear Dangers	52	(3)
Lisa Ledwidge
U.S. Leadership in the Global Economy	55	(30)
John Cavanagh
Corporate Welfare and Foreign Policy	73	(2)
Janice Shields
The World Trade Organization	75	(2)
Aileen Kwa
The World Bank and the IMF: Shifting Agendas of the Bretton Woods Twins	77	(2)
Erik Leaver
Repairing the Global Financial Architecture: Painting over Cracks vs. Strengthening the Foundations	79	(4)
David Felix
Multilateral Debt	83	(2)
Soren Ambrose
America's Fading Commitment to the World	85	(32)
Charles William Maynes
The International Criminal Court	107	(2)
Joe Stork
Human Rights and U.S. Policy	109	(2)
Joe Stork
The United States' Use and Abuse of the United Nations	111	(2)
Phyllis Bennis
Humanitarian Intervention: A Dangerous Doctrine	113	(2)
Jules Lobel
Michael Ratner
International Terrorism	115	(2)
Stephen Zunes
Global Environmental Protection in the Twenty-First Century	117	(32)
David Hunter
Environment and Security Policy	140	(2)
Stacy VanDeever
Population and Environment	142	(1)
Robert Engelman
Environment and Capital Flows	143	(2)
Lyuba Zarsky
Intellectual Property Rights and the Privatization of Life	145	(2)
Kristin Dawkins
U.S. Trade Policy Backs An Economic Loser: Weapons over Environmental Technology Exports	147	(2)
Miriam Pemberton
U.S. Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Problems, Opportunities, and Recommendations	149	(16)
Coletta Youngers
U.S.--Western European Relations: The Transatlantic Partnership in the Shadow of Globalization	165	(20)
Jonathan P. G. Bach
Central and East Europe in Transition: A Mixed Record	185	(30)
Richard F. Kaufman
Janine R. Wedel
NATO Expands East	205	(4)
William D. Hartung
Richard F. Kaufman
U.S. Policy in the Balkans	209	(6)
Robert Greenberg
Containment Lite: U.S. Policy toward Russia and Its Neighbors	215	(22)
John Feffer
Continuing Storm: The U.S. Role in the Middle East	237	(18)
Stephen Zunes
The United States and Africa: Starting Points for a New Policy Framework	255	(28)
William Minter
Still the Pacific Century? U.S. Policy in Asia and the Pacific	283	(38)
John Gershman
Editors and Chapter Authors	321	(2)
Essay Authors	323	(2)
Readers and Consultants	325	(2)
Foreign Policy In Focus	327	(3)
Institute for Policy Studies	330	(2)
Interhemispheric Resource Center	332	(1)
Index	333