America's New Course

William G. Hyland

From Foreign Affairs, Spring 1990

Summary:  Analysis of the USA's post-Cold War security interests, seeing a decline in military and ideological issues, and growth of interest in trade and economic policy, the environment, terrorism and drug trafficking. FA editor.

William G. Hyland is Editor of Foreign Affairs.

2 See Hoffmann, op. cit.

3 American Agenda: Report to the Forty-First President of the United States of America. Camp Hill, Pa.: Book-of-the-Month Club, n.d., p. 22.

4 See Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson, "Thomas Jefferson and American Foreign Policy," Foreign Affairs, Spring 1990.

5 Václav Havel, "The Chance Will Not Return," U.S. News and World Report, Feb. 26, 1990, p. 30.

6 "Who Won Eastern Europe?," editorial in The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 23, 1990, p. 10. For a recent critique of Cold War policies see Strobe Talbott, "Rethinking the Red Menace," Time, Jan. 1, 1990; an opposing view is provided by Richard Pipes, "Gorbachev's Russia: Breakdown or Crackdown?" Commentary, March 1990. See also Paul Taylor, "Cheney Finds That CIA Chief is No Comrade in Arms," The Washington Post, March 6, 1990, p. 21.

7 Al Kamen, "U.S. Strategy: Pressure for Vote," The Washington Post, Feb. 28, 1990, p. 1.

8 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, "Realism and Chinese Repression," The Washington Post, Oct. 13, 1989.

9 "The Caricature of Deng as a Tyrant Is Unfair," The Washington Post, Aug. 1, 1989. For a defense of the Bush administration's policy see Michel Oksenberg, "Bush is Right on China," The New York Times, Dec. 13, 1989, p. 31 and A. Doak Barnett, "Increasingly Bush Seems Right on China," The New York Times, Jan. 21, 1990, p. 21.

10 Quoted in Martin Tolchin, "House, Breaking with Bush, Votes China Sanctions," The New York Times, June 30, 1989, p. 1. Also see Winston Lord, "Misguided Mission," The Washington Post, Dec. 19, 1989, p. 23; and Anthony Lewis, "Kissinger and China," The New York Times, Aug. 20, 1989, p. 23.

11 American Agenda, op. cit., p. 19.