Foreign Policy in Focus articles from June 2001

Foreign Policy in Focus archives from June 2001

Raise a Glass to Kyoto.
June 1, 2001... The climate showdown, as everyone knows, is coming soon. The Europeans are doing their best to ratify Kyoto, but the Japanese--essential to any ratification coalition that lacks the U.S.--are waffling, and the U.S. is going to do everything in...

U.S. Drug Policy & Intelligence Operations in the Andes.
June 4, 2001... The Bush administration recently suspended intelligence flights over Peru and Colombia after a Peruvian air force jet--acting on U.S. intelligence--fired on a civilian aircraft mistakenly suspected of drug trafficking, killing an American...

Problems with Current U.S. Policy.
June 4, 2001... The adoption of a shoot-down policy by Peru and Colombia sparked an intense debate within the Clinton administration in 1994, prompting the Department of Defense (DOD) to suspend real-time intelligence sharing due to concerns that the use of...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.
June 4, 2001... In March 2001, Gen. Peter Pace, the commander of U.S. military forces in the Andean region, told a congressional committee that the "ability to execute effective [counternarcotics] operations is often hampered by restrictions on sharing data...

U.S. Security Assistance to Israel--.
June 11, 2001... Key Points * With influence comes responsibility. The U.S. should not undermine the peace process it has helped design by arming Israel in preparation for further conflict. * Increases in U.S. military assistance are based on the...

Problems with Current U.S. Policy.
June 11, 2001... Key Problems * By ignoring the security ramifications of its Foreign Military Financing program, Washington is undermining both regional security and the overall personal security of most Israelis. * U.S. military assistance to Israel...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.
June 11, 2001... Key Recommendations * Rather than spending billions of dollars preparing Israel for conflict, the U.S. should focus on addressing the causes of conflict. * To restore confidence in negotiated peace, Washington must emphasize regional...

U.S. Policy Toward Political Islam --.
June 18, 2001... Key Points * U.S. policy toward the Islamic world is skewed by negative stereotypes of Islam that fail to recognize its diversity. * Radical Islamic movements often arise out of the legitimate needs and grievances of oppressed sectors...

Problems with Current U.S. Policy.
June 18, 2001... Ironically, the U.S. has at times been a supporter of hard-line Islamic movements and governments. For example, Washington armed extremist Islamic groups in Afghanistan during the 1980s during the popular uprising against that country's...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.
June 18, 2001... To effectively challenge the threat from radical Islamic movements, the U.S. must shift its focus from trying to crush such movements to pursuing policies that discourage their emergence. Similarly, the U.S. must recognize that not all Islamic...

Star Wars Revisited.
June 25, 2001... Key Points * On May 1,2001, President Bush reiterated his campaign pledge to deploy a multitiered ballistic missile defense system as soon as possible. * More than $70 billion spent on missile defense projects since 1983 has produced...

Problems with Current U.S. Policy.
June 25, 2001... Key Problems * Ambitious missile defense proposal fails to take into account the reality of missile defense programs under development. * The costs, both monetary and political, of deploying NMD outweigh the benefits. * Bush's...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.
June 25, 2001... Key Recommendations * Instead of pursuing a costly, unworkable missile defense program, the U.S. should pursue deep reductions in U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals without preconditions. * Washington should redouble its diplomatic...