Foreign Policy in Focus articles from February 2000

Foreign Policy in Focus archives from February 2000

Lebanon: Key Battleground for Middle East Policy.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Lebanon has historically prided itself on maintaining good relations both with its Arab neighbors and with the Western world. During the cold war, Lebanon navigated carefully between the two superpowers, although its political elite identified...

Problems With Current U.S. Policy.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... America's foreign policy toward Lebanon still suffers from a number of problems and cannot be divorced from the history of U.S. interference in Lebanon's internal affairs and U.S. support of Israeli policies detrimental to the Lebanese people...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The U.S. remains committed to its commercial, economic, military, and political interests, which are often defined in ways that run counter to support for human rights and democracy in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East. Washington's...

The U.S. and the Israeli-Syrian Peace Process.(Brief Article)
February 15, 2000... For the past three decades, the United States has taken the primary facilitating role in the Arab-Israeli peace process, marginalizing the Russians, the European Union, and the United Nations. Washington has therefore had to balance its narrow...

Problems With Current U.S. Policy.(Brief Article)
February 15, 2000... The United States convened peace talks between Syria and Israel in 1991 in Madrid as part of a broader peace process initiated after the Gulf War. Israel broke off the talks in 1996 but returned to the bargaining table in late 1999. Yet...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)
February 15, 2000... In order to play a reasonably constructive role in seeking a peaceful resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the United States has to approach the peace talks from the perspective of upholding United Nations Security Council resolutions,...