Abstract

Abstract Basic foreign policy options for the United States in the post‐cold war period are such that withdrawal and nonentanglement are neither feasible nor desirable, and full U.S. engagement is necessary to maintain international stability. No other power or combination can substitute, especially in residual deterrence of Soviet nuclear power, but also in containing outlaw states like Iraq. U.S. vital interests are tied to the world future, involving 12 key goals for the “Millennium”: framing a stable order; accommodating change; protecting diversity; preventing genocide; suppressing terrorism; curbing arms proliferation; building consensus on environmental change; sustaining economic growth; improving LDC share of planetary product; better coordinating of G‐7 macroeconomic policies; redressing American economic imbalances; and rationalizing international organizations. The cold war shaped the present organizational disorders, so streamlining of structure and remodeling of the United Nations is now fea...

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