Foreign Affairs: A Foreign Policy for the Global Age

Author: Samuel R. Berger, Chairman, Albright Stonebridge Group
November/December 2000

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It is not enough for us simply to open our markets, hook up the world to MTV, and hope that people beat their swords into shares on the NASDAQ. The way for America to exercise its influence today is to build with our democratic partners an international system of strong alliances and institutions attuned to the challenges of a globalized world. We must ensure that this system is genuinely open to all who adhere to clearly defined standards. And we must be ready to stand up for those standards when they are threatened.

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