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CIAO DATE: 03/02
Volume 2, Number 1, March 1997
From the Editors
"Fifty years ago, a farsighted America led in creating the institutions that secured victory in the Cold War and built a growing world economy. As a result, today more people than ever embrace our ideals and share our interests . . . . Now, we stand at another moment of change and choice — and another time to be farsighted — to bring America 50 more years of security and prosperity."
With these words, President Clinton, in his annual State of the Union address, issued an appeal to the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress to work with him, over the next four years, in a spirit of bipartisanship to meet U.S. foreign policy goals for the 21st century.
Those goals — and the views of the administration and Congress on how to achieve them — are the subject of this journal. In the Focus section, the president, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, and a National Security Council official outline administration foreign policy priorities, and three members of Congress who deal with foreign policy issues give their views on future directions for U.S. foreign policy. A leading scholar, in the Commentary section, gives an outsider's view of the problems involved in executive-legislative relations; and the major administration and congressional figures who deal with foreign policy are profiled in Key Players.