Clinton's Grand Strategy: US Foreign Policy in a Post-Cold War World by James D. Boys

Author:James D. Boys [Boys, James D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, United States, Comparative Politics, Political Science, Americas (North; Central; South; West Indies), History, General
ISBN: 9781472529701
Google: GXIpBgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 22155395
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015-02-26T07:29:14+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Prosperity promotion

Of the three central aspects of US Grand Strategy, it was prosperity promotion that most revealed President Clinton’s hand in foreign policy developments in the post-Cold War world. Other administrations had addressed economic policy and the importance of foreign trade, but the Clinton administration took this to a new level by incorporating them into US Grand Strategy. The administration’s embrace of economic policy within the international sphere ensured it was at the vanguard of foreign policy initiatives, in a timely combination of a new era, a new administration and a new approach to grand strategy. The decision to bring economic policy into grand strategy was a way to redefine policy to minimize the president’s lack of experience in international relations as it had been practiced throughout the Cold War. With a new geopolitical era, the administration claimed that old definitions of international relations were no longer valid and it was time for new ideas and concepts. Prosperity promotion as a part of grand strategy had a profound impact on other nations and institutions, giving direction and impetus to the CIA, driving US policy with a new Europe, an emerging China, and new international trading blocks.

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