The cold war came to a grinding halt during the astounding
developments of 1989-1991.The Berlin Wall fell, Eastern European
countries freed themselves from Soviet domination, and the Soviet
Union itself disintegrated after witnessing a failed coup
presumably aimed at restoring a communist dictatorship. Suddenly
the "evil empire" was no more, and the raison d'etre for most
post-World War II U.S. foreign policy vanished.
What has happened to the content of U.S. foreign policy and to
the bureaucracy responsible for making that policy in the years
since those momentous events? Have there been significant changes?
If not, why not? Have George Bush and Bill Clinton provided
leadership designed to produce meaningful change?
These are the crucial questions addressed in this timely volume
of essays, a collaborative effort which began at a 1994 conference
held in Columbus, Ohio, and sponsored by the Mershon Center at Ohio
State University and the Midwest Consortium for International
Security Studies. The authors of the individual chapters examine a
wide variety of bureaucratic institutions and some major
substantive policy areas. In a concluding chapter, the editors
synthesize these findings to provide more general answers: There
are signs of genuine change, they argue, but there is much more
evidence to suggest that the United States is clinging to its old
foreign policies and structures. They cite a lack of presidential
leadership as one of the key elements in explaining why U.S.
foreign policy has not adapted to a dramatically altered world.
"This volume provides an insightful and comprehensive analysis
of why U.S. foreign policy processes, structures, and policies have
not yet adaptedto the new post-Cold War international environment.
Must reading for those who wonder why this nation is so confused
and unsure of itself as it seeks to define its proper role in the
world". Lawrence J. Korb, The Brookings Institution
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