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Clinton Doctrine
The Clinton Doctrine is not an official government statement but an interpretation made by experts of the main priorities in the foreign policy of U.S. president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.
Various speeches have been proposed as texts for a doctrine. Thus, in a February 26, 1999, speech, President Bill Clinton said the following:
It's easy ... to say that we really have no interests in who lives in this or that valley in Bosnia, or who owns a strip of brushland in the Horn of Africa, or some piece of parched earth by the Jordan River. But the true measure of our interests lies not in how small or distant these places are, or in whether we have trouble pronouncing their names. The question we must ask is, what are the consequences to our security of letting conflicts fester and spread. We cannot, indeed, we should not, do everything or be everywhere. But where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must be prepared to do so.
Clinton later made statements that augmented his approach to interventionism:
Genocide is in and of itself a national interest where we should act and we can say to the people of the world, whether you live in Africa, or Central Europe, or any other place, if somebody comes after innocent civilians and tries to kill them en masse because of their race, their ethnic background or their religion, and it's within our power to stop it, we will stop it.
The interventionist position was used to justify U.S. involvement in the Yugoslav Wars. Clinton was criticized for not intervening to stop the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Other observers viewed Operation Gothic Serpent in Somalia as a mistake.
The Clinton administration also promoted globalization by pushing for trade agreements. The administration negotiated a total of around 300 trade agreements, such as NAFTA. Anthony Lake who served as National Security Advisor to Clinton between 1993 and 1997, showed the Clinton administration's commitment to accelerating the process of globalization in a speech given in 1993. The speech talked about enlarging the community of democracies around the world alongside expanding free markets.
In Clinton's final National Security Strategy, he differentiated between national interests and humanitarian interests. He described national interests as those that:
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Clinton Doctrine
The Clinton Doctrine is not an official government statement but an interpretation made by experts of the main priorities in the foreign policy of U.S. president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.
Various speeches have been proposed as texts for a doctrine. Thus, in a February 26, 1999, speech, President Bill Clinton said the following:
It's easy ... to say that we really have no interests in who lives in this or that valley in Bosnia, or who owns a strip of brushland in the Horn of Africa, or some piece of parched earth by the Jordan River. But the true measure of our interests lies not in how small or distant these places are, or in whether we have trouble pronouncing their names. The question we must ask is, what are the consequences to our security of letting conflicts fester and spread. We cannot, indeed, we should not, do everything or be everywhere. But where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must be prepared to do so.
Clinton later made statements that augmented his approach to interventionism:
Genocide is in and of itself a national interest where we should act and we can say to the people of the world, whether you live in Africa, or Central Europe, or any other place, if somebody comes after innocent civilians and tries to kill them en masse because of their race, their ethnic background or their religion, and it's within our power to stop it, we will stop it.
The interventionist position was used to justify U.S. involvement in the Yugoslav Wars. Clinton was criticized for not intervening to stop the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Other observers viewed Operation Gothic Serpent in Somalia as a mistake.
The Clinton administration also promoted globalization by pushing for trade agreements. The administration negotiated a total of around 300 trade agreements, such as NAFTA. Anthony Lake who served as National Security Advisor to Clinton between 1993 and 1997, showed the Clinton administration's commitment to accelerating the process of globalization in a speech given in 1993. The speech talked about enlarging the community of democracies around the world alongside expanding free markets.
In Clinton's final National Security Strategy, he differentiated between national interests and humanitarian interests. He described national interests as those that: