Looks at the environmental legislative achievements of the Clintonadministration and the diminishing success of these achievements since the Republican takeover of Congress.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 10 sources, 2002, $ 97.95
Abstract This eleven-page undergraduate academic paper examines the Clintonadministration's environmental legislative achievements in his second term in office, and analyzes how the Republican takeover of Congress after the 1994 mid-term elections changed the administration's achievement levels.
Abstract This essay argues that the Clintonadministration has mishandled its management of foreign policy. It has sacrificed American national interest and power for the sake of domestic political interests. The administration has failed to articulate a coherent American interest. This failure has led to a weak foreign policy.
Abstract This five-page paper presents a discussion about the Bill Clintonadministration. The author takes the reader on a tour of the effectiveness the Clintonadministration had and the positive or negative aspects of his administrative years. The author takes the stance that he was in fact effective even given his personal problems and trials.
Abstract This paper discusses the Clintonadministration's political, strategic and ideological motivations for supporting NATO expansion and whether the future of NATO will be as a collective defense pact or as a vehicle for democratic expansion.
From the paper:
"On March 16, 1999, the flags of the first three ex-communist countries to gain admission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ? Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic ? were hoisted above NATO headquarters in Brussels, marking the final act in the first stage of NATO expansion. Fifty years after its creation, with former Warsaw Pact members joining what began as an anti-Soviet alliance, NATO's original purpose of keeping "the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down" seems to no longer apply. The Russians no longer possess the ability (and some would argue the desire) to realistically threaten European security. With growing assertiveness in European affairs, the Germans are not ?down,? but their increased role in politics, economics, and security of Europe does not inspire the panic it would have so soon after World War II when the alliance was formed."
Abstract This paper studies foreign trade policy during the Clintonadministration. The paper analyzes decisions and actions in two of Clinton's top priority areas: (1) the trade imbalance between the U.S. and Japan and (2) the trade status of China. The paper begins by discussing U.S.-Japanese relations, including their impact on financial instability in Asia. The paper attempts to understand how increased stability would behoove the U.S. and how attempting to affect that change would impact fiscal policy regarding Japan. Then the paper turns to U.S.-China relations, focusing on Clinton's desire to bestow Most Favored Nation status on China, in order to increase and improve trade. The paper weighs the benefit of increased trade against the cost of China's human rights violations.
From the Paper "There are many doom-sayers in the U.S. predicting that what was the southeast Asian financial crisis of several years ago, will reemerge in Japan in an even more catastrophic way, which would seriously impact trade agreements, import/export statistics and even the average American consumer who buys millions of Japanese-made products, from computers to microwave ovens. What made the situation in Japan worse than experts anticipated was the steady fall of the Japanese exchange rate, falling by more than 10% from March, 1998 through June. At the same time, Japan entered a recession, registering negative growth in the fourth quarter of 1997 and the first quarter of 1998."
Abstract This report introduces the issues of fiscal balance in terms of problems faced by the Clintonadministration and identifies alternative solutions. The paper also looks at existing literature on the subject and related issues, such as Clinton's financial advice to Japanese leaders and various interpretations of political occurrences of the time. The methodology of the report concentrates on financial data derived from existing literature, with an eye on the reduction of bias through a balanced report. Additionally, the paper analyzes data and discusses questions of how balance was achieved and provides recommendations for the future in terms of fiscal policy that can be derived from extant data.
From the Paper "The reduction of deficit and fiscal balance was particularly highlighted in the later years of the Clinton administration, but it may have had roots in the beginning of the administration in terms of the background of the policies which went into effect regarding government spending and tax revenue. When Clinton came into office, he had ideas about overhauling spending which were soon put into practice so that spending could be increased and tax cuts for the wealthy would not be a big part of the program. There was significant dissonance between this vision, which also included extensive healthcare and welfare reform, and the vision of the mostly-Republican Congress which was in office for most of Clinton's years in office, and this also adds substantially to the
background of fiscal policy. For example, Clinton's programs were more likely to be slowed down in Congress by this type of system."
Abstract This paper provides an analysis and response to the book "From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency" (Brown & Littlefield: 2002) by author William C. Berman. In this work, Berman provides a brief account of the ClintonAdministration, with an emphasis on how Clinton addressed a wide range of diverse political issues to such an extreme that he was often stretched thin in terms of his attention span and his resources
Abstract This paper discusses the ClintonAdministration's use of comprehensive engagement in its relations with China. The paper asks whether Clinton's China policy was justified. The paper examines issues of increased trade and containment, while also looking at the historical picture: the start of changes in U.S.-China relations that began with Richard Nixon.
From the Paper "The relationship between the United States and the Peoples' Republic of China PRC has been both complex and controversial for several key reasons. First the polarization of the ..."
Abstract This paper discusses the birth and evolution of the economic policies of Bill Clinton during the 1992 presidential election campaign and his first year in office, and focuses upon various details of the process, including how deficit reduction became the top priority, who supported deficit reduction, who opposed it, and why.
Abstract In this paper the author examines the US Federal Budget during the Clintonadministration and how he reduced the deficit to a surplus amount in 1998. He moves on to discuss the changing American economy and provides examples of why he considers that there are times in a nation's life when deficits are necessary and even beneficial. The author suggests that use of debt spending during wars and times of recession help to boost the economy but can be detrimental to the Stock Market. He further examines levels of taxation and compares the effect that different administrations have had on the federal deficit.
From the paper:
?Determining the correct, or economically benign, level of deficit and debt is a subject for endless debate. Economies do not operate by a simple law of cause and effect, of plus and minus, of deficit and surplus. They are complex interweaving of many economic and psychological factors, both domestic and international. Although a huge deficit is never to be praised, there are times in a nation's life when deficits are necessary and even beneficial.?
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Abstract This paper examines the Kyoto Protocol, an international response to scientific evidence that emission rates of greenhouse gases cause global climate change, which was originally signed by the Clintonadministration in 1998. The paper explains that this act committed the United States to a seven percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2012. The paper states however, that in 2001, the Bush administration withdrew U.S. support for the protocol. The paper discusses the reasons given by the administration for the withdrawal of the agreement and shows that the arguments presented are based on factual information and are solid reasons for a refusal to ratify the protocol.
From the Paper "Additionally, the price tag on the implementation of Kyoto is based on preventative action, rather than a response to "real and present danger", a principle the United States has generally rejected. Bush notes that even the studies done that put Kyoto into action did not show conclusively that global climate change is an imminent danger, nor that a change in climate is related to human beings (Wallace, 2002). In fact, according to a recent article in Scientific American, human related climate change can be traced back as far as the dawn of agriculture, or 8,000 years ago. Even if all emissions were halted today, the levels of CO2 contained within the deep layers of the ocean will continue to be released over the next several hundred years (Tyldesley, 2005). Since more immediate human health issues exist, the Bush administration notes, those issues should be dealt with first (Wallace, 2002)."
Abstract The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) eliminated, or will eliminate (by 2009), all trade barriers between Canada, Mexico and United States. Not long after NAFTA took effect on January 1, 1994, the ClintonAdministration made the extension of that agreement (the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA) its top trade priority. Specifically, President Clinton proposed to expand NAFTA to include all of Central and South America, thus creating a free trade zone that would extend from Alaska's Point Barrow in the north down to Argentina's Tierra del Fuego in the south. The paper argues, however, that such a move is potentially disastrous, as demonstrated by America's five-year experience with NAFTA. This paper argues against the extension because NAFTA has already had a negative impact on the economy, environment and welfare of both the U.S. and Mexico, and those consequences will only be compounded by the FTAA.
From the Paper "By contrast, the areas already hit by the transformation of the American economy suffered even more. Most of the people who lived in these downtrodden regions of Southern California were members of minority groups. They watched helplessly as NAFTA drained more blue-collar jobs away from their already depressed neighborhoods. Those jobs, generally high-paying, had been the ticket to upward mobility for those lacking education or language skills. But companies such as Goodyear, General Motors, and Firestone departed, and the blue-collar opportunities were replaced by minimum wage jobs that offered no hope for escape (O?Connor, 1998, B1)."
Abstract This paper reviews Stephanopoulos's "All Too Human", a memoir and chronicle of life inside the ClintonAdministration. It concludes that this book is equal parts truth and gossip, and it postulates that if all the things said in the book are true, Clinton could have been an exceptional President, if he were not so "human."
Abstract This paper examines the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq from the perspectives of Bill Clinton and Mohandas Gandhi indicating that neither of them would have initiated a preemptive war under such unjustified circumstances. The paper further discusses that Gandhi's advocacy of non-violence would have precluded him from even considering military action, while President Clinton's energetic advocacy of diplomacy and negotiation in the Middle East confirmed that he considered the use of military force to be a last resort, justified only by an immediate threat to American national security.
Abstract This paper discusses the new Indian education policy put into effect by the Clintonadministration. This paper explains Clinton's strategy is to evaluate the role Native language and customs play in Indian education, establish baseline date, report and develop. The goal is to implement the policy within two years.
