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 ...
U.S. Entanglements in Colombia Continue
Reviving the rhetoric of the Reagan/Bush years, Clinton Administration officials are once again pointing to the "narcoguerrilla" threat-erasing the already ...
Lake and FeinBerg the Best and the Brightest?
The appointments of Anthony Lake as National Security Council Adviser and Richard Feinberg as the Council's officer on Latin American ...
Development Aid: Some Small Steps Forward
The commitment of some Clinton Administration appointees to a more participatory approach to development has given significant space to some ...
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 ...
