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A Democrat Looks at Foreign Policy

By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Winter 1987/88
Article Summary and Author Biography

Reviews foreign policy issues confronting the USA from a Democratic (i.e. generally progressive) point of view, by means of an occasionally combative critique of Reagan's 'unilateralist' foreign policy (e.g. concern with Nicaragua rather than with Latin-American debt) and of its over-reliance on covert action. Western Europe is 'safe enough' from Soviet invasion and Star Wars "is not only a fantasy but a fraud". Presents his party as that of 'responsible internationalism', and concludes with a resumé of its trade policy.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., is Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Copyright © 1987 by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

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