Strategic Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War: 2nd Symposium of the Center on Inter-American and World Studies

Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War.

This book provides a comprehensive view of most Post-Cold War strategic challenges affecting America and the West, as well as possible solutions that would enable the United States to retain global leadership and influence at acceptable operational levels, rather than the full Cold War mobilization of the by-gone Containment years. A host of new geo-strategic challenges has erupted out of the dramatic, unexpected end of the Cold War and the fall of Communism, which destroyed the Soviet Union and radically realigned the politico-economic and geo-strategic maps of Europe and the ex-USSR. The daily, but predictable, dangers of Cold War bipolar confrontation between rival ideologically rival Super-Powers armed with nuclear arsenals, have been replaced now by creeping Post-Cold War regional and sub-regional tensions, or even uncontrollable trans-national disasters "in the making": deforestation, global drug-trafficking, potentially global epidemics of infectious diseases, infrequent bursts of massive emigration waves of political refugees (flee even ethnic genocide) and more often countless destitute economic migrants. Dr. Marco Rimanelli, [as of 1998] current Director of the Center on Inter-American and World Studies of St. Leo University brought together on 19 March 1997 a distinguished group of scholars to the Center's IInd [2nd] Symposium at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida [USA], to analyze new international/regional developments in Europe, the ex-Soviet Union, Latin America, the Middle-East, Africa and Asia, as well as to suggest a coherently global, Post-Cold War foreign policy for U.S. National interests and Western security.

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Dr. Marco Rimanelli is the Director of the Center on Inter-American and World Studies of Saint Leo University (Tampa, FL, USA), and is now a tenured Professor in European Affairs, U.S. Foriegn Policy and International Security. Since 1993, he has also been Editor of Political Chronicle, the Journal of Florida's Political Science Association. In 1991-1992, he worked on U.S. - Soviet/Russian nuclear arms reduction at the U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency (State Department, Washington, D.C.). He has authored numerous books and articles on U.S.-European security, including: "Italy between Europe and the Mediterranean: Diplomacy and Naval Strategy, 1800s-2000" (Peter Lang Publications, 1997) and edited "Comparative Democratization and Peaceful Change in Single-Party-Dominant Countries" (St. Martin's Press, 1999)