Objectives: Future Problems and Priorities for U.S. Foreign Policy

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Panelists

The Need for Solvency: A New Focus in U.S. Foreign Policy
Mr. James Chace
Senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment, is the co-author of America Invulnerable: The Quest for Absolute Security from 1812 to Star Wars (forthcoming). Among his many books are Solvency: The Price of Survival; Endless War: How We Got Involved in Cental America and What Can Be Done; Atlantis Lost; US-European Relations After the Cold War. Mr. Chace was formerly the managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine and an editor of the New York Times Book Review.

The Link Between Nuclear Strategy and Proliferation: Future Problems for American Nuclear Thinking
Professor Philip Bobbitt
Professor of law at the University of Texas Law School. A counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Iran/Contra Affairs, his books include: Democracy in Deterrence; Nuclear Negotiations; Reassessing Arms Control and Goals in U.S.-Soviet Relations.

The Political Impact of Arms Control Treaty regimes on US/USSR Relations: Positive or Negative?
Dr. Antonia Chayes
Former Undersecretary of the Air Force under the Carter Administration, he is currently Chairman of the Board of ENDISPUTE, a pioneering firm in the field of corporate legal management located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A former Dean of Jackson College, Tufts University, and Associate Professor of Poltical Science, she is on the Board of Directors of United Technologies and is a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Low Intensity Conflict and Interventionism: American Foreign Policy into the 1990s
Professor Michael Klare
Professor of political science at Hampshire College. The director of the Five-College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, he is the author of Supplying Repression: U.S. Support for Authoritative Regimes Abroad and co-author of Low Intensity Warfare: Counterinsurgency, Proinsurgency and Anti-Terrorism in the Eighties. He is also the defense correspondent for Nation magazine.

Drugs and Foreign Policy: Two Decades of Tradeoffs
Mr. Stephen Engelberg
Intelligence/National Security reporter for the New Tork Times in its Washington Bureau and he was the co-editor of the New Tork Times version of the Iran/Contra report.

Should the U.S. Care About Democracy in the Third World?
Dr. Susan Kaufman Purcell
Senior Fellow and Director of the Latin American Project of the Council of Foreign Relations. She is a former Latin American Specialist for the State Department Policy Planning staff and was previously a professor of political science at UCLA.

U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Right
Mr. Robert Borosage
Senior Issues Advisor to the Jesse Jackson campaign for the Presidency. A former director of the Institute for Policy Studies from 1977-88, he was also the director for the Center for National Security Studies, Washington, D.C.. A former lecturer at Yale University Law School, he is the author of The CIA Files.

Discussant/Interlocutor:
Mr. Bobby Cooley
Educated at Tufts and Harvard Universities, he has been a faculty member and administator at Tufts University since 1981 and is currently the Acting Director of the Afro-American Center and the Assistant to the Director of the International Relations Program.

Moderator:

Mr. Eric Nicklas

Foreign Policy Colloquium

Conference Wrap-Up

Mr. Christopher L. Ball, Foreign Policy Colloquium
Ms. Debra Gold, Foreign Policy Colloquium
Ms. Elizabeth A. Hyman, Foreign Policy Colloquium
Mr. Sherman Teichman, Foreign Policy Colloquium

The International Relations Colloquium on Foreign Policy:

Seth J. Axelrod, Christopher L. Ball, John Beebe, Laura-Beth Berenson, Jacqueline S. Berger, David Demblitzer, Rachel Fleishman, David A. Friechling, Adam Garth, Debra Gold, Nancy L. Green, Elizabeth A. Hyman, Maria Iacobucci, Marie Angell P. Kwek, Jessica Langearn, William O. Matthews Jr., Yvette Max, Peter W. McCormick, Erin Nickles, Tom B. Romer, Robert P. Sneirson, Howard Sobkov, David Woo and James A. Wood.

Sherman Teichman, Director.