Foreign Policy was deceptively muted in the election campaign, and the Clinton administration will find Americans ill-prepared for the demands of a world transformed. Domestic and international challenges cannot be neatly separated - intiatives at home may only complicate the problems abroad, and vice versa. The "courage to change" was Clinton's signal - and warning - of a dramatic break with the past.
Leon V. Sigal is a member of the Editorial Board of The New York Times.
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