Conversations with History: Institute
of International Studies, UC Berkeley
This interview is part of the Institute's "Conversations
with History" series, and uses Internet technology to share with the public
Berkeley's distinction as a global forum for ideas.
Welcome to
a Conversation with History. I'm
Harry Kreisler of the Institute of International Studies. Our guest today
is Sherle R. Schwenninger, who was editor of World Policy from
1983 to 1991. He is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, and
Co-Director of the Global Economic Policy Program at the New America Foundation.
- Background ... cusp between
Midwest and West ... common sense ... value of public investment ... détente
comes home ... university and law school
- Thinking Outside the Box on U.S. Foreign
Policy ... stuck in Cold War paradigms ... new policy journal for
new voices ... self-censorship of foreign policy commentators ... changing
the terms of the debate
- The Role of Domestic Agendas
... shaping the conventional wisdom ... reality corrects imbalances ... history
viewed through ideological lens ... what is or is not debated
- The Defacto "Grand Strategy"
of Neoliberalism ... 1990s strategy incomplete and unnamed ... promoting
liberal democracy through economic development ... lack of overarching view
... democracy through forced interventions
- Bush's Post-9/11 Grand Strategy
... triumphalism with paranoia ... for us or against us ... Bush doctrine
already fading ... the necessity of interdependence ... Bush's cavalier attitude
- An Alternative Grand Strategy
... focusing on middle-class living standards ... multipolarity ... the problem
of U.S. foreign debt ... modeling middle class development on post-Depression
America ... out-of-balance consumerism
- Conclusion ... conventional
wisdom and public discourse ... advice for students ... bringing accountability
back to public discourse ... divergence of academia and government

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