The World Today United States Presidential Election: It's Foreign Policy, Stupid The upcoming election could be one of the closest – and most divisive – in recent American history. Its outcome is just as likely to be determined by what the ‘resistance’ in Iraq does between now and polling day, as by what happens in the US itself. For the first time since the Vietnam war, a foreign policy entanglement could make a huge difference to the politics of the last remaining superpower.
The World Today Does the Bush Foreign Policy Revolution Have a Future? In Search of Monsters For the past three years, and especially since the September 11 2001 attacks, a common critique of American foreign policy under President George Bush has run as follows.
The World Today Pro- and Anti- Americanism in Britain: With Them or Against Them? The recent state visit to Britain by President George Bush, the first by a United States leader since Woodrow Wilson in 1918, provided an excellent opportunity to gauge the strength of pro- and anti-American feeling in this country and to reflect on the implications.
The World Today Foreign Office Priorities: Mind the Gap Where does Britain stand in a world of terrorism, rogue states, weapons of mass destruction and pre-emptive action? For the first time the Foreign Office has set out to explain. Perhaps surprisingly, some see economics as the key.
The World Today Georgia: Changing the Guard For thirty years Eduard Shevardnadze was the sun in the solar system of Georgian politics. All other political forces orbited around him. This sun was expected to burn out at the presidential election in April 2005.
The World Today Americas Free Trade: Nasty and Brutish Jobs and prosperity are at stake as a series of trade talks – some a decade in the making – gather momentum. But the world has changed from the benign internationalism when President George Bush senior dreamed of free trade from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. Now deals are done bilaterally in a nasty and brutish environment.
The World Today China: Chinese Road China’s leaders have been discussing economic and political reform for the first time since changes at the top of the party more than a year ago. They do so against a background of considerable economic success and a new confident role on the world stage, especially in its dealings with North Korea.
