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> FOREIGN POLICY STUDIES
> Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense & Foreign Policy Studies
> Gary Dempsey, Foreign Policy Analyst
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> Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World
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> The World Bank's Procurement Myth
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> The Domino Theory Reborn: Clinton's Bosnia Intervention and the "Wider War"
> Thesis
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> Smoke and Mirrors: The Clinton-Hashimoto Summit
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> A Miasma of Corruption: The United Nations at 50
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> Time Bomb: The Escalation of U.S. Security Commitments in the Persian Gulf
> Region
>
> Cato’s foreign policy vision is guided by the wisdom expressed in Thomas
> Jefferson’s credo: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,
> entangling alliances with none." Accordingly, Cato’s foreign policy work
> supports the concepts of a national defense based on strategic independence and
> diplomacy based on prudent nonintervention. Under the direction of Ted Galen
> Carpenter, Cato’s foreign policy work is currently devoted to four major issue
> areas: (1) the conflict in Bosnia; (2) U.S. participation in United Nations
> peacekeeping and nation-building missions; (3) the problems of nuclear weapons
> proliferation; and (4) the future of NATO, SEATO, and other alliances.
> Carpenter’s scholarly papers have been published recently in Foreign Affairs,
> World Policy Journal, and Mediterranean Quarterly.
>
> Recent Highlights
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> Books:
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> • Delusions of Grandeur, edited by Cato’s vice president for foreign policy and
> defense studies, Ted Galen Carpenter. This Cato Institute book features the
> papers delivered at Cato’s 1996 conference, "The United Nations and Global
> Intervention." Chapters include the UN’s peacekeeping, social, and economic
> agenda by Robert Oakley, former U.S. ambassador to Somalia, and John Bolton,
> former assistant secretary of state for international organizations.
>
> • Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World, a Cato Institute
> book by Cato senior Fellow Doug Bandow. This book argues that it is time to
> phase out the American military commitment to South Korea, which has twice the
> population of North Korea and an economy 18 times as large as that of the North.
> That step, the book concludes, would free the United States of an obsolete
> obligation and give South Korea responsibility for its own security.
>
> Studies:
>
> • "Paternalism and Dependence: The U.S.-Japanese Security Relationship," by
> Cato’s vice president for foreign policy and defense studies, Ted Galen
> Carpenter. This Policy Analysis study explains how the U.S. military alliance
> with Japan not only provides a lucrative defense subsidy to the Japanese at the
> expense of American taxpayers, but also that it is designed for a bygone era in
> which Japan was economically weak and faced the nearby threat of the Soviet
> Union. Today, however, Japan is an economic power and should play the lead role
> in promoting security and stability in East Asia.
>
> • "Instinct for the Capillary: The Clinton Administration’s Foreign Policy
> ‘Successes,’" by Jonathan G. Clarke, co-author of After the Crusade: American
> Foreign Policy for the Post- Superpower Age. This Policy Analysis study argues
> that the Clinton administration’s so- called foreign policy ‘successes’ involve
> countries that have little relevance to America’s vital interests, while
> Washington’s relations with such nations as Russia, China, Japan, and the West
> European powers are in disarray.
>
> • "The Sweet-and-Sour Sino-American Relationship," by Leon T. Hadar, adjunct
> professor of international relations at American University. This Policy
> Analysis study maintains that the United States would have greater influence in
> China if it intensified economic relations instead of adopting a confrontational
> attitude. Economic contacts, explains the study, would have a liberalizing
> influence, increasing the likelihood of economic and political reforms.
> Moreover, given the growing tensions between the United States and
> Chinaincluding recent disputes over trade, Taiwan, and human rights—hard-line
> U.S. policies based on the assumption that China poses a strategic, economic,
> and cultural threat could create a tragic, self-fulfilling prophecy of conflict.
>
> • "NATO Expansion and the Danger of a Second Cold War," by Cato adjunct scholar
> Stanley Kober. According to this Policy Analysis study, expanding NATO could
> create the most serious crisis in Europe since World War II. It could undermine
> Russia’s democrats, intensify suspicions about Western intentions, and play into
> the hands of those who argue that the Soviet empire must be restored to protect
> Russian security. The study acknowledges that East Europeans have ample reason
> to fear Russian political trends, but to expand NATO could institutionalize a
> new confrontation and create new dangers.
>
> • "Changing the Way We Do Business in International Relations," by former U.S.
> foreign service officer Charles Schmitz. This Policy Analysis study argues that
> the end of the Cold War, the advent of new communications technologies, the
> worldwide trend toward decen- tralized government, and the increasing importance
> of economic—rather than political— relations, requires that Washington overhaul
> its approach to diplomacy. The conduct of U.S. foreign policy, concludes the
> study, needs to be streamlined so that the bulk of international relations is
> conducted by regional or local authorities, businesses, and private citizens.
>
> • "The Nunn-Lugar Act: A Wasteful and Dangerous Illusion," by Richard Kelley, an
> indepen- dent defense analyst based in Washington, D.C. When the Soviet Union
> disintegrated in late 1991, Soviet nuclear weapons were in the hands of suddenly
> independent republics whose leadership appeared confused and unstabe. In
> response to that threatening turn of events, Sens. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and Richard
> Lugar (R-Ind.) persuaded Congress to pass the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR)
> program to provide assistance for dismantling or safely storing the weapons in
> the Soviet nuclear arsenal. The program, reports this Policy Analysis study, is
> now a full-fledged Pentagon bureaucracy. What is more, evidence suggests that
> CTR may threaten American security in long; CTR funds have eased the Russian
> military’s budgetary woes, freeing resources for such initiatives as the war in
> Chechnya and defense modernization.
>
> Events:
>
> • "Tensions in the China Sea," a Policy Forum with, Cato’s vice president for
> foreign policy and defense studies, Ted Galen Carpenter; James Przystup,
> director of the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation; and Selig
> Harrison, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
> Discussants suggested steps that Washington could take to avoid a showdown over
> Taiwan.
>
> • "Red Resurgence or Revitalized Reform? Russia’s Political Future," a Policy
> Forum with Susan Eisenhower, chairperson of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies,
> Dmitry F. Mikheyev, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and Ariel Cohen,
> senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Eisenhower, Mikheyev, and
> Cohen discussed the prospects and implications of a possible communist victory
> in Russia’s June election. This forum is available in RealAudio.
>
> • "Does the International Drug War Make Sense?," a Policy Forum featuring Robert
> Gelbard, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law
> Enforcement Affairs, and Kevin Jack Riley, author of Snow Job? The War against
> International Cocaine Trafficking. Gelbard reviewed the logic of Washington’s
> international narcotics control strategies and discussed how the United States
> plans to significantly reduce the flow of drugs across its borders. Riley
> questioned the supply-side campaign, examined its impact on drug-source
> countries, and assessed its prospects for success.
>
> Upcoming Activities
>
> Books:
>
> • Global Mirage: The United Nations and Collective Security, by Cato’s vice
> president for foreign policy and defense studies, Ted Galen Carpenter. This Cato
> Institute book will overturn the public’s belief that the UN is a effective
> peacekeeper.
>
> • Defending America in an UNcontrolable World, by Earl C. Ravenal, professor of
> international relations at Georgetown University. This Cato Institute book will
> discuss the future of U.S. foreign policy and national defense in an
> international arena dominated by the UN.
>
> • Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington’s Hemispheric War on Drugs, by Cato’s vice
> president for foreign policy and defense studies, Ted Galen Carpenter, and the
> director of Cato’s Project on Global Economic Liberty, Ian Vásquez. This Cato
> Institute book will document how the U.S.’s drug interdiction program strains
> relations with our Latin American allies.
>
> Studies:
>
> • "The Case for National Missile Defense," by Cato associate policy analyst
> Barbara Conry. This Policy Analysis study will argue that a national missile
> defense program is a more cost efficient and suitable means of presevering
> national security in a post-Cold War world than maintaning a 1,000,000-man
> standing army and a $265 billion-a-year defense budget.
>
> • "A New European Security Architecture," by Jonathan G. Clarke, co-author of
> After the Crusade: American Foreign Policy for the Post-Superpower Age. This
> Policy Analysis study will exmine the possibility for new security relationships
> in post-Cold War Europe.
>
> • "Letting Taiwan Defend Itself," by Cato’s vice president for foreign policy
> and defense studies, Ted Galen Carpenter. This Policy Analysis study will make
> the case that the U.S. should take a smaller role in defending Taiwan.
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