The Clinton Administration and Africa: A View from Gaborone, Botswana

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
Larry A. Swatuk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Clinton Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Material World ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
The World

With fanfare befitting the arrival of a god of the Western material world, U.S. President Bill Clinton toured Southern Africa imparting “words of wisdom” along the way. His aim, we were told, was to see that the United States becomes Africa’s “true partner.” The reason being, according to Clinton, “[a]s Africa grows strong, America grows stronger ... Yes, Africa needs the world, but more than ever it is equally true that the world needs Africa.” To this end, the United States would pursue a mix of political and economic policies that included the African Crisis Response Initiative and the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, both designed to foster “stability” and “prosperity” on the continent. Lofty goals, to be sure, but ends whose means are badly in need of interrogation. This article does just that: To wit, does Clinton, on behalf of U.S. policymakers, mean what he says? If so, in naming “peace” and “prosperity,” can he make them? Put differently, does the Clinton administration have the power to introduce order where there was chaos? Or will it only compound existing problems and visit new ones upon those who had few to begin with?

Observations on the Structure of World Trade and Payments

1956 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-559
Author(s):  
Herbert B. Woolley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
American People ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Systematic Understanding ◽  
The Impact

EVENTS intimately linked to our foreign relations have profoundly affected the level of economic activity in the United States and the character of our economic progress and stability. They cannot be disregarded by those concerned with the level of economic activity in this country. Furthermore, those concerned with the economic policies of the United States must also be concerned with the impact of those policies upon the rest of the world because of the great importance of the United States in the world economy, and because of the link between economic, political, and military events at home and abroad. Since the United States cannot ignore the far-reaching and indirect effect of its policies and decisions, the American people and their government require a detailed and systematic understanding of the economic interrelationships among all countries of the world. Even more, to exercise the international leadership which our great size and resources impose upon us, we must be in a position to assess the effect of developments and actions everywhere upon the political and economic strength of the free world. This article considers a few of the salient features of world economic relations which should always be kept in mind in assessing economic policy alternatives.

scholarly journals Should China’s Economic Policy Be Resisted?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentin K. POSPELOV ◽  
Valentina N. MIRONOVA ◽  
Petr I. CHUVAKHIN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reform Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Free Trade Policy ◽  
Economic Strengthening

China's economic policies were transformed during the reform period that started in 1979, when the most populated country in the world adopted market-based reforms. Currently, China not only has grown to become the second largest and mid income economy in the world from one of the world's poorest countries, but also actively advances the free trade policy and fills the developing niches, although the latter has caused some concerns. The Chines active economic policy along with its economic and political strengthening in addition to the tensions with the United States rise the question whether the Chinese economic policy should be resisted? This paper analyses the different aspects of China’s economic policy and intents to answer the question based on the importance of the Chinese role in the world economy and development while the public opinion toward China’s economic strengthening has been considered as well.

scholarly journals Development of business environment construction in China: a comparative analysis based on typical countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 02013
Author(s):  
Yonghui CAO ◽  
He JIANG
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Improvement ◽  
Improvement Measures

The World Bank publishes the business environment report every year, ranking the business environment of 190 economies in the world. This paper mainly compares and analyzes the relevant indicators of marketization, legalization and internationalization between China and New Zealand, Singapore, the United States, and points out the existing problems and future improvement measures, so as to provide reference for further improving the competitiveness of business environment in China.

Peaceful Change in US Foreign Policy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Welch Larson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
The World ◽  
New Institutions ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Military

The chapter discusses the US advocacy of liberal principles and pursuit of hegemony as its contribution to peaceful change. In the nineteenth century, the United States forcefully asserted its leadership over the Western Hemisphere, although it did not have the military capabilities to enforce the Monroe Doctrine. Under Woodrow Wilson, the United States promoted the ideals of collective security, self-determination, and international institutions. These ideas were implemented in the World War II settlement, when the United States helped to establish new institutions: Bretton Woods and the United Nations. The United States helped to integrate the USSR and China into the international community through the détente strategy, including linkage and triangular diplomacy. After the Cold War ended, Bill Clinton sought to engage China through increased trade and membership in the World Trade Organization and decided to expand NATO to include members of the former Soviet alliance.

scholarly journals Conservation education on the academic level in southern Africa

Koedoe ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Du P Bothma
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conservation Education ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
The World

Conservation in some form, albeit dormant at times, has probably been with man for many centuries. Yet wildlife conservation as a science is a relatively new concept, which basically originated in the United States of America (USA). That country also led the world in developing conservation education. This lead was followed by most progressive countries, although the nature of conservation and its related educational processes has been adopted to the attitudes and needs of individual countries.

scholarly journals Hunting Indians: Globally Circulating Ideas and Frontier Practices in the Colombian Llanos

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carwil Bjork-James
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Agricultural Cooperative ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Geographies

AbstractIn the mid-twentieth century, renewed colonization of the Llanos region of Colombia brought escalated violence to the closely related Guahibo and Cuiva peoples. This violence was made public by two dramatic episodes that became international scandals: a December 1967 massacre of sixteen Cuivas at La Rubiera Ranch, and a 1970 military crackdown on an uprising by members of a Guahibo agricultural cooperative in Planas. The scandals exposed both particular human rights abuses and the regional tradition of literally hunting indigenous people, and provoked widespread outrage. While contemporaries treated these events as aberrations, they can best be explained as the consequence of policies that organize and manage frontiers. Both events took place in a region undergoing rapid settlement by migrants, affected by cattle and oil interests, missionaries, the Colombian military, and U.S. counterinsurgency trainers. This paper draws on archival research to trace the events involved and explains their relation to globally circulating policies, practices, and ideas of frontier making. It illustrates how Colombians eager to expand their frontier in the Llanos emulated and adapted ideas of human inequality, moral geographies that make violence acceptable in frontier areas, economic policies that dispossess native peoples, and strategies of counterinsurgency warfare from distant sources. Ironically, their quest for modernity through frontier expansion licensed new deployments of “archaic” violence. The Llanos frontier was thus enmeshed in an interchange of frontier-making techniques that crisscrosses the world, but particularly unites Latin America and the United States.

Doing the Lord’s Work

2020 ◽  
pp. 243-254
Author(s):  
Ronald W. Schatz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Clerical Workers ◽  
Elderly Workers ◽  
Clark Kerr ◽  
The World ◽  
Complete Failure

Unlike most elderly workers, the Labor Board vets continued to work to the end of their lives. They had a mission in life. This chapter explores their work in their latter years. After briefly discussing Jean McKelvey, Clark Kerr, Ben Aaron, Robben Fleming, and George Shultz, it focuses on John Dunlop’s work with the clerical workers union at Harvard University, his work with the farmworkers union in Ohio and Michigan, and the commission he chaired at the request of President Bill Clinton to improve worker, union, and management relations in the United States. The first two efforts were successful, the latter a complete failure. The world overwhelmed the reformers

Clinton's Encounter with the Separation of Powers: ‘United’ and ‘Divided’ Gridlock

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-183
Author(s):  
Colin Campbell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Clinton Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
White House ◽  
Democratic Candidate ◽  
Approval Ratings ◽  
Public Property

Soon After The Democratic Candidate For President Of The United States in 2000, Al Gore, conceded defeat to George W. Bush, he engaged in a heated exchange with President Bill Clinton over why he had lost the election. Gore argued that Clinton's sexual escapades, and public qualms about other character issues, notwithstanding strong approval ratings for the job he was doing as president, had contributed significantly to Gore's defeat. Clinton retorted that Gore blew an ideal chance to run on the record of the Clinton administration and fumbled a perfect opportunity to become president. However, the Clinton record proves ambiguous at best. Indeed, the aftertaste has carried strongly over to his first hundred days out of office. The dubious pardons, ‘conversion’ of public property from the White House and rental rates at prime Manhattan locations have grabbed more headlines and provided more grist for talk shows, it often seems, than negative coverage of George W. Bush. Indeed, in terms of negatives, we run the risk of seeing Clinton's first hundred days out of office eclipse Bush's first hundred days in the presidency.

Statement on South Africa and Namibia

1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-61
Author(s):  
Donald F. McHenry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
Essential Prerequisite

I appreciate the invitation of the Committee to appear during the Subcommittee’s series of hearings on the situation in southern Africa. The situation and problems of that part of the world, indeed of Africa as a whole, deserve more attention than Americans, including members of the Congress, have given it heretofore. It will be clear from my statement that I believe it necessary to correct a number of aspects of policy which the United States has followed in southern Africa, particularly in recent years. An essential prerequisite for the correction of policy is knowledge and understanding of developments there.

Southern African Pressure Politics in the U.S.

1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
Robert J. Janosik ◽  
Barbara E. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nixon Administration ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Pressure Groups ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

Southern Africa earns little press coverage in the United States. Issues which relate to this part of the world are, newsmen feel, of minimal interest to the American news consumer. But the lack of coverage reflects another phenomenon: the nature of the activities of Southern African agents and allies in the U.S. These pressure groups, unlike those of the splashier (domestic) labor, medical and legal lobbies, do not concern themselves with grassroots activity or extensive media attention. Like the Nixon Administration at least until the Watergate debacle the Southern Africa-oriented pressure groups foster and consciously maintain a low profile.

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