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The Clinton administration should take advantage of the opportunity to make women's rights a prominent part of US foreign policy until the year 2000. With Madeleine Albright as the first woman secretary of state, human rights appears to have a secure place in policy decisions during Pres. Clinton's second term. In particular, the Clinton administration, which had a dismal record in human rights in its first term, can glean lessons from the efforts of the Bush administration and the European Union to compel the six former Soviet states to institute security policies and democratic principles before granting them diplomatic recognition.
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Clinton's second term: making women's rights a foreign policy issue.
Speculating about die future always engenders risk--after all, time will tell. Nonetheless, the opening of President Bill Clinton's second term provides a fitting opportunity for speculation, particularly in issues of foreign policy, where the flux brought about by the end of the Cold War has opened an unusually wide array of possibilities. In the United States, attention to the post-communist world most often focuses on the transformations in eastern Europe and the states of the former Soviet Union. Recently, however, events in the Afghanistan civil war have brought Taliban into control of the capital and have posed for the United States a choice about whether to recognize as legitimate a gove...
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