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Melvin Goodman
political roots.
Dr. Goodman will talk of the application of these traditions to strategic thinking and to our national security, particularly in the national security policies of Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush.
In his April 12 talk, Dr. Goodman will pay special attention to the influence of the Pentagon on the policy and intelligence communities in both administrations, and explore the U.S. emphasis on national missile defense in the context of unilateral policy making and military influence.
Missed
opportunities
Dr. Goodman believes that the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 “provided a strategic opening for ‘new thinking’ in American foreign policy. But the two Bush administrations and the Clinton administration have failed to respond to the challenge.
The attacks of Sept. 11 provided another opportunity to refocus and realign American national security — but once again, we have relied on unilateral and triumphal approaches rather than on multilateralism and diplomacy.
With the possible exception of Secretary of State Colin Powell, the senior members of the current Bush administration appear to believe that military force is the only tool in the
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