Immigration Policy: A Tricky Business
Though elected officials are reluctant to admit it, migration policy is a persistent issue with strategic implications. It is intimately ...
The Only War We’ve Got”. Drug Enforcement in Latin America
To date, U.S. taxpayers have provided nearly $290 billion for the war on drugs, yet cocaine and heroin are more ...
The Growing Traffic in Arms
Two major policy issues, representing opposite ends of the technology spectrum, are fueling an ongoing political debate in Washington. At ...
Clinton, NAFTA and the Politics of U.S. Trade
Clinton has taken some small steps to mollify trade unionists and environmentalists, but the primary focus of his trade policy ...
Clinton’s Cuba Calculus
CLINTON'S CUBA CALCULUS While recent events provided Clinton with an opportunity to fundamentally rethink U.S. policy, he let the moment ...
Clinton’s Cuba Policy: A low-Priority Dilemma
In Cuba, Castro has publicly praised the new president. Privately, he had a friend ask Jimmy Carter to relay the ...
Washington Loosens the Knot (Just a Little)
It was a far cry from the opening even many Republican moderates had urged, but Bill Clinton's announcement in early ...
The Internal Policy Debate
Looking beyond crude electoral calculations, a number of Clinton's foreign-policy specialists have pushed internally for a moderate relaxation of sanctions ...
