Honey, Martha and Barry, Tom, eds. Global Focus: U.S. Foreign Policy at
the Turn of the Millennium. New York: St.Martin's Press, 2000. 340 pages.
This collection of essays was put together by staff at the Institute
for Policy Studies and the Interhemispheric Resource Center, and partially
funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Most of the
contributors are from progressive think tanks, or are faculty members at
various campuses. Of the twelve chapters, the first five deal with the
U.S. budget, militarization, the global economy, human rights, and the
environment. Except for the first chapter, each of these is supplemented
with five two-page essays on related issues, from other writers. The
remaining seven chapters adopt a regional approach: Latin America and
the Caribbean, Western Europe, Central and East Europe, Russia and its
neighbors, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia and the Pacific. Of these
seven, only the third essay has two extra short pieces.
Five years later the perspectives in these essays have been largely
overshadowed. America is hated by more people, it's running huge deficits,
a high-tech stock-market bubble popped, and the U.S. domestic safety net
has all but disappeared. It is now clearer than ever that Americans won't
be driving around in gas guzzlers for many more years. There is nothing on
the horizon that can adequately address these new issues, and sooner or
later they could have a profound effect on U.S. foreign policy.
ISBN 0-312-22771-X
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