The Next American Century: Essays in Honor of Richard G. LugarJeffrey T. Bergner Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 - 214 pages With 40 years in public service, and 23 years on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, Richard Lugar's career and views are of particular interest today, when the U.S. must be particularly careful to choose a wise course of foreign policy. In this collection of essays, distinguished scholars, government officials, public servants and businessmen honor the man who sees Teddy Roosevelt's 'big stick...not as a substitute for good sense, but an expression of it, ' in addition to analyzing the U.S.'s responsibilities and possible courses of action in the Middle East, in building democratic allies, in using intelligence, and much more |
Contents
Natural and Human Resources | 15 |
Leadership in the Global Economy | 27 |
Building Democratic Friends | 39 |
Fashioning a Bipartisan Foreign Policy | 55 |
Living with a New Europe | 69 |
The United States and Asia in the TwentyFirst Century | 85 |
Defeating the Oil Weapon | 95 |
The Americas The Stakes and Challenges | 109 |
The Threat of Terror | 141 |
Intelligence and Its Uses | 149 |
Shaping a Strong Military | 167 |
A Global Coalition against Terrorism | 177 |
Responsibility and Foreign Affairs | 185 |
A Foreign Policy Chronology of Richard G Lugar | 197 |
Index | 203 |
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Page 9 - All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.
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