Challenges and opportunities for U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, October 21, 2003.

Designed to be challenging but truly accessible, this book offers a carefully integrated, global approach to American foreign policy. It explores U.S. vital interests in seven major regions of the world, explains how American foreign policy was formulated in the past, and considers what the policy is likely to be in the changed international system of the 21st century. The major processes at work in the contemporary international system, the context in which American foreign policy is being made is explored in the book. This book begins with a comprehensive, systematic review of the major political, social, and economic changes at the international level in the past 15-20 years and the impact of these changes in the major regions of the world. The global economy and post-Cold War political changes are emphasized. U.S. involvement in the Cold War from a regional perspective is reviewed. A regional approach that emphasizes America's vital interests in Western Europe, Central/East Europe and Eurasia, East and Northeast Asia, China and Japan, South Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa. All terms are clearly definec.