2000: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

As the year 2000 fades into memory, it's worth taking a look back to note some of the major events of the year, events that defined the ebb and flow of world affairs, and specifically, the events and initiatives that defined the U.S. role in the world.

The year 2000 saw the Clinton Administration promoting trade through the World Trade Organization, NAFTA, APEC and the U.S.-China Trade Agreement; promoting child labor rights by signing the International Convention for the Elimination of Child Labor; promoting trade and investment in Africa through the various versions of the African Growth and Opportunity Act; promoting trade and investment in the Caribbean through the Caribbean Basin Initiative; promoting democracy and human rights by ending seeking to end bloodshed in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, East Timor, Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, and Sierra Leone; working to secure a lasting peace in the Middle East by hosting the Camp David II Peace Summit; working to bring peace to Northern Ireland by seeking the full implementation of the Good Friday Accord of April 1998; reversing ethnic cleansing in Kosovo by leading the NATO Alliance in a 79-day air war that expelled Serb forces from Kosovo and restored self-government to the province after a decade of repressive rule by Slobodan Milosovic; promoting international debt relief at the June G7 Summit by supporting the Cologne Initiative linking debt relief to poverty reduction; leading a global campaign against AIDS and declaring AIDS to be a threat to American national security; working to reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction by signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and working to build consensus towards ratification; seeking to reduce tensions between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan; enforcing the no-fly zones in Iraq; and exorcising the ghosts of the Cold War with a historic presidential visit to Vietnam.

Please join me in this farewell to the year 2000 by reviewing the assembled links to documents, organizations and news articles. As ever, please feel free to join us in looking back on Events 2000 in our message boards and e-mail list.

DOCUMENTS

• Clinton's

  Foreign Policy: The editors of Foreign Policy scrutinize the

  conventional wisdom regarding President Clinton's foreign policy.

• Interview: Clinton's

  Remarks on Foundation of Foreign Policy: Excerpts from an interview of

  President Clinton in the Oval Office by the New York Times.

• Roundtable

  Discussion: Clinton's Foreign Policy: A Critical Assessment: A

  discussion and review of the Clinton years hosted by The James MacGregor

  Burns Academy of Leadership, and co-sponsored by the Center for the Advanced

  Study of Leadership and the Fulbright International Center, University of

  Maryland.

ORGANIZATIONS

• The United States Department of State:

  Official web page of the State Department.

EVENTS 2000 IN REVIEW

• December 16, 2000: President Elect Bush Names Colin Powell as Secretary of

  State

• December 10, 2000: Prime Minister Barak of Israel Submits Resignation
• December 1, 2000: Vicente Fox Inaugurated as Mexico's New President
• November 29, 2000: EU Fights Mad Cow Disease
• November 27, 2000: Prime Minister Chretien Wins Another Term in Canada
• November 26, 2000: Presidential Elections in Haiti, Aristide Wins
• November 20, 2000: Fujimori Resigns as President of Peru
• November 16, 2000: Clinton Visits Vietnam
• November 8, 2000: Middle East Violence
• October 12, 2000: Attack on the USS Cole in Yemen
• October 7, 2000: Kostunica Sworn in as Yugoslav President
• October 6, 2000: Milosovic Concedes Defeat
• October 5, 2000: Yugoslavs Protest Against Milosovic
• September 24, 2000: Yugoslav Elections
• September 20, 2000: U.S. Senate Votes to Permanently Normalize Trade with

  China

• September 6, 2000: UN Millennium Summit
• July 17, 2000: Bashar Assad becomes Syria's 16th president.
• July 11-25, 2000: Camp David II Middle East Peace Summit
• July 8, 2000: 13th International AIDS Conference
• June 13, 2000: North-South Korean Summit
• June 10, 2000: Syria's Hafez Assad Dies
• June 4, 2000: Russian-U.S. Summit
• May 22, 2000: Israeli Troops Leave Lebanon
• May 20, 2000: Security Council Members Agree to Eliminate Nuclear Arsenals
• May 7, 2000: Putin Sworn In As Russian President
• May 3, 2000: Lockerbie Bombing Trial
• March 26, 2000: Russian Presidential Elections
• March 25, 2000: Clinton Visits Pakistan

NEWS LINKS

• The Minnesota Daily (editorial): Clinton's

  Foreign Policy Was Unimpressive

• The New York Times: Economic

  Engine For Foreign Policy

• USA Today: Clinton

  Foreign Policy Has Staying Power

• AP: U.S.

  Foreign Policy May Change

• ABC: Clinton's

  Foreign Policy Goals

INTERACT

• Discussion

  Forum: US Role In The World: Join us on the FPA Message Board and share

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