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We also retain a strong stake in an open global
economy, as the increasing role of exports in domestic
employment generatiQ~ makes free trade and investment
even more important ~atjonal objectives then they've
been in the past.
But we are increasingly handicapped by domestic
structural problems, in particular our failure to
apply budget discipline and a corresponding shortage
of domestic savings.
• Three, the system of nation-states that developed during,
the Cold War, and the elites who governed those states, are
caught in a swirl of both centralizing and decentralizing
forces.
The result is not the obsolescence of the
nation-state, which still remains the central actor in
international relations, but rather the transformation
,of the particular system of nation-states that we've
grown accustomed to over the last half-century.
To be sure, there are some respects in which it can be
argued that the ability of nation-states to control
events and command populations is in decline.
Centralizing trends and influences -- like economic
interdependence, European integration, the worldwide
revolution in information technology, and the
multiplication of non-state actors -- are drawing
growing attention, and in some ways eroding the·
sovereign authority of states.
But the more powerful reality today appears to be the
rise of decentralizing. pressures, rearranging the old
system.of nation-states on the basis of new or revived
challenges to the legitimacy of ruling e~ites. From
the disintegrated Soviet empire to the Balkans to much
of Africa and the Middle East, what is happening is
that traditional elites who have either excluded
significant national or ethnic groups from power or
failed to deliver !POlitical ot economic goods are
under attack.
What we are facing, in effect is a proliferation of
political actors and new nation-states that in some
ways reinforces the other proliferation problem, the
spread of WMD. The consequences of this political
proliferation, and the crisis of legitimacy at its
core, are uncertain ones for the u.s.:
•• On the one hand~ there are now enormous
possibilities for nurturing democratic values and
insti-tutions, creating an international
environment that could become more benign than
ever for Americans.
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It also means greater international intrusiveness,
whether as part of strengthened global regimes (CWC,
NPT); ad hoc G-7 cooperation (linking assistance and
concessional lending~to behavior on proliferation --
Iran is an early test); or, in the most extreme case,
preemptive military action (the North Korean nuclear
program may still confront us with this question,
highlightirig the need for an "anti" as well as a "non"
proliferation policy).
• On regional security, w~ will be able to put relatively
less emphasis on forward-deployed forces, and greater focus
on crisis response and force reconstitution. Some of the
resultant cost savings should be devoted to UN and other
international peacekeeping forces, as an increasingly
useful complement to our own military resources.
Here too, preventive diplomacy to forestall regional
conflicts and achieve political resolutions will
remain a crucial tool. The success of Arab-Israeli
negotiations -- particularly completing an interim
agreement between Israelis and Palestinians in 1993
would be an important part of your own legacy,
building on the breakthrough at Madrid.
In the Persian Gulf, we should complement our
bilateral security ties with encouragement of
multilateral security dialogue, and perhaps e¥entually
even modest CSBM arrangements. Our aim throughout
would be to draw Iran and post-Saddam Iraq into a more
stable balance at the lowest possible level of
armaments.
In the different ci~cumstances of Asia and the
Pacific, we should also aim for a blend of core
bilateral lfnks and regional security dialogue. We
will want to temper the dangers of revived competition
between Japan and China -- and create a stable
environment for managing issues still remaining from
the Cold War (especially the Northern Territories and
Korean reunification).
5. Consolidating Democratic Institutions and Political
Pluralism. No foreign policy challenge in the second term is
potentially more promising or more frustrating than that of
helping fledgling democracies find solid footing.
• As recent experiences in Algeria, Venezuela and Peru
illustrate, we will face some extremely difficult choices
in supporting the strengthe1•ing oE democracy. In many of
these countries, oligarchical control, violent ethnic and
tribal rivalries, extremist opposition groups, corruption,
huge gaps between rich and poor, authoritarian traditions,
and the uncertain future and uneven social consequences of
market reform all lurk behind what is often still little
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responsibility among Washington agencies and within
missions abroad, and building a much more effective
public-private sector par~nership.
• Assistance: To better harness foreign assistance to the
goals of collective engagement, we need to drastically .
consolidate the functions and objectives of AID and put
what's left directly under State's chain of command.
• Intelligence: Collection priorities will need to be
adapted to the five key challenges noted above, with
relatively greater emphasis on political-economic questions.
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