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Article: Clinton's foreign policy team draws fire Scholars say president overlooked what academia has to offer
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 1, 1993
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When President Clinton took office in January, he recruited
experts from the nation's universities, including a dozen from
Harvard. But as the dust begins to settle after early stumbles in
Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti, many scholars and policy intellectuals are
suggesting that in the area of foreign affairs, Clinton's cultivation
of academia was insufficient.
Since the president built a brain trust of scholarly experts to
advise him on the economy, health care, the war on drugs and welfare
reform, these scholars ask, where are the big-thinking people who
could help forge a foreign policy for the post-Cold War world, or
navigate the correct path in complex situations such as those in
Haiti or ...