Foreign Policy in Focus articles from May 1999

Foreign Policy in Focus archives from May 1999

Population and Environment.
May 7, 1999... The long debate over the impact of population growth on the environment is gradually converging on a middle ground where most scientists can agree. The need now is to prod U.S. policymakers--distracted by political battles over abortion--to a...

Problems With Current U.S. Policy.
May 7, 1999... Policymakers rarely contemplate long time periods and connections between disparate sets of issues, especially controversial ones. Nonetheless, at the dawn of the new century the world faces a host of environmental and security risks strongly...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.
May 7, 1999... Sound population policies focus not so much on discouraging reproduction but rather on access to critical services that make reproduction health, y, safe, and intentional for all people. This requires universal access both to information and to...

U.S.-North Korea Relations.(Brief Article)
May 14, 1999... North Korea is the United States' longest-standing adversary. The U.S. helped to divide the Korean peninsula at the end of World War II, then waged war against North Korea in the 1950s. It has maintained economic sanctions against Pyongyang for...

Problems With Current U.S. Policy.(Brief Article)
May 14, 1999... There are at least two U.S. government policies toward North Korea. Elements within the Clinton administration support limited engagement and steps toward normalization of relations. In the CIA and the Pentagon, however, many are deeply...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)
May 14, 1999... Even as it simultaneously wages war in Iraq and Yugoslavia, the Clinton administration could attempt to bring peace to the Korean peninsula. To do so, it must take the dramatic first step of normalizing relations with North Korea. This would...

Turkey: Arms and Human Rights.(Brief Article)
May 21, 1999... Considered a strategic NATO ally, Turkey has benefited from a U.S. policy that is long on military assistance and short on constructive criticism. Washington values close ties with Turkey both as a secular state with a predominately Muslim...

Problems With Current U.S. Policy.(Brief Article)
May 21, 1999... The December 1997 State Department agreement to link an export license to human rights improvements would signal--if implemented--respect for international human rights law. It would also bring U.S. policy in line with Section 502B of the...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)
May 21, 1999... Vague U.S. law gives the Clinton administration a great deal of discretion over arms export approvals. When a sale to a close ally like Turkey is at stake, the immediate financial and political gratification of an arms sale is almost always...