America's Asia Policy: Preparing for the 21st Century

Abstract

America's national security strategy is drifting, cut loose from its Cold War moorings and jostled from crisis to crisis. It is struggling to provide America with a new compass heading into the 21st century in a world where familiar reference points are fading and unfamiliar ones abound. Issues and problems of previously secondary importance suddenly have become critical determinants of international behavior and conflict. As the world's sole surviving superpower, American leadership is being called upon to resolve international crises, whether U.S. involvement is clearly in American national interests or not. Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti and the collapse of the old Soviet empire are but symptoms of a new world order that we have yet to fully comprehend.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 15, 1994
Accession Number
ADA441625

Entities

People

  • Douglas A. Hartwick

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cold War
  • Commerce
  • Economic Development
  • Economic Security
  • Economic Systems
  • Economics
  • Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • Human Rights
  • International Organizations
  • International Trade
  • Investments
  • National Security
  • Southeast Asia
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Oceanography.
  • Systems Analysis and Design