Eight Years of Clinton-Gore Foreign Policy: A Passing Grade?
POLICY FORUMThursday, November 2, 2000
12:00 p.m.
Featuring Jonathan Clarke, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.
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After serving as U.S. president for two terms, Bill Clinton will leave office in January. His vice president, Al Gore, stands a good chance of becoming the next president of the United States. What kind of grade does the Clinton-Gore administration deserve on its eight-year foreign policy record? Few administrations are presented with the kind of chance to transform U.S. foreign policy that Clinton and Gore were after the end of the Cold War. They had an extraordinary opportunity to build a new relationship with a democratic Russia, restructure U.S. security policy in both Europe and East Asia, and revisit some intractable Cold War-era problems, such as tense relations with Cuba and North Korea. Please join us as two experts grade the past eight years of Clinton-Gore foreign policy.