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YES: 45103 Anne O. Krueger, from "An Enduring Need: The Importance of Multilateralism in the 21st Century," Lecture Presented at the 2006 Annual Meetings, Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group (September 19, 2006)
NO: 45206 Hugo Chavez, from Address to the Opening of X11 G-15 Summit (March 1, 2004)
Anne O. Krueger, special adviser to the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, asserts that the growth of economic globalization is the best approach to improving the economies of Africa and, by extension, other countries as well.Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, tells a summit meeting of the Group of 15 (G-15), a coalition of now 17 economically less developed countries (LDCs) in Latin America, Africa, and Asia that cooperate to press the International Monetary Fund and other international financial organizations to adopt policies more favorable to the LDCs, that globalization is a process controlled by the wealthy and powerful, economically developed countries for their benefit and has harmed the LDCs.
YES: 38469 Julia Galeota, from "Cultural Imperialism: An American Tradition," The Humanist (May/June 2004)
NO: 38470 Phillippe Legrain, from "In Defense of Globalization," The International Economy (Summer 2003)
Julia Galeota of McLean, Virginia, who was seventeen years old when she wrote her essay that won first place for her age category in the 2004 Humanist Essay Contest for Young Women and Men of North America, contends that many cultures around the world are gradually disappearing due to the overwhelming influence of corporate and cultural America. Philippe Legrain, chief economist of Britain in Europe, an organization supporting the adoption by Great Britain of the euro as its currency, counters that it is a myth that globalization involves the imposition of Americanized uniformity, rather than an explosion of cultural exchange.
YES: 39327 Louis Janowski, from "Neo-Imperialism and U.S. Foreign Policy," Foreign Service Journal (May 2004)
NO: 45133 Michael Mandelbaum, from "David's Friend Goliath," Foreign Policy (January/February 2006)
Louis Janowski, a former U.S. diplomat with service in Vietnam, France, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, maintains that the view that the 9/11 attacks ushered in a new geo-strategic reality requiring new foreign policy approaches is based on a false and dangerous premise and is leading to an age of American neo-imperialism. Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy and director of the American Foreign Policy Program at The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, contends that U.S. power and leadership help maintain global security and prosperity and that most other countries want American leadership, even if they sometimes disagree with U.S. policy.
YES: 45136 Tucker Herbert and Diane Raub, from "Russian Geopolitik," The Stanford Review (June 2, 2006)
NO: 45137 Eugene B. Rumer, from Testimony during Hearings on "Developments In U.S.-Russia Relations" before the Subcommittee on Europe and Emerging Threats of the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives (March 9, 2005)
Tucker Herbert and Diane Raub, both of whom are on the staff of the Stanford Review, an independent, student-run newspaper at Stanford University, argue that under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has fallen from the ranks of democracies and is engaged in a foreign policy that pits U.S. interests against those of Russia. Eugene B. Rumer, a senior research fellow at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C., recognizes that Russia democracy falls short of full scale and that Russian policy sometimes clashes with the United States, but argues that compared to the history of Russian democracy, which was zero before the 1990s, the country is not doing poorly and that Russias pursuit of its own interests should not be construed as necessarily antagonistic.
YES: 45139 Robert T. McLean, from "The Pentagon Gets China Right," www.FrontPageMagazine.com (June 7, 2006)
NO: 45140 Alice Lyman Miller, from "China: A Superpower? No Time Soon," Hoover Digest (Spring 2005)
Robert T. McLean, a research associate at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., contends that the U.S. Defense Department is correct in its view that China is an expanding danger based on its expansive aspirations in the economic and political arenas coupled with an equally bold foreign policy. Alice Lyman Miller, editor of the Hoover Institution journal, China Leadership Monitor, projects that it will be a long time before China acquires the global political, strategic, and economic reach of a superpower.
YES: 45145 Patricia Berlyn, from "Twelve Bad Arguments for a State of Palestine," An Original Essay Written for This Volume (2006)
NO: 34515 Rosemary E. Shinko, from "Why a Palestine State," An Original Essay Written for This Volume (2006)
Patricia Berlyn, an author of studies on Israel, primarily its ancient history and culture, refutes 12 arguments supporting the creation of an independent state of Palestine, maintaining that such a state would not be wise, just, or desirable. Rosemary E. Shinko, who teaches in the department of political science at the University of Connecticut, contends that a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians must be founded on a secure and sovereign homeland for both nations.
YES: 45147 William E. Odom, from "Cut and Run? You Bet," Foreign Policy (May/June 2006)
NO: 45148 Richard B. Cheney, from "Remarks on the War on Terror," Speech Delivered at the American Enterprise Institute (November 21, 2005)
William E. Odom, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in New York City; retired lieutenant general, U.S. Army; and former director of the National Security Agency, argues that the United States cannot be successful in Iraq and that withdrawing quickly will end or ameliorate all the negative effects of having U.S. troops in the countryd B. Cheney, vice president of the United States, tells an audience that in light of the commitments our country has made, and given the stated intentions of the enemy, those who advocate a sudden withdrawal from Iraq are advocating a course that will bring disaster.
YES: 39457 Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, from "Hastening Cubas Transition," Report to the President: 2004 (May 6, 2004)
NO: 39343 William Ratliff, from "The U.S. Embargo Against Cuba Is an Abysmal Failure. Let's End It," Hoover Digest (Winter 2004)
The Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, which President George W. Bush established on October 10, 2003, and charged with making recommendations about how to hasten a transition to democracy in Cuba, argues in its report to the president that the U.S. government should take stronger measures to undermine the Castro regime and to promote conditions that will help the Cuban people hasten the end of President Fidel Castro's dictatorial regime. William Ratliff, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, argues that sanctions on Cuba only hurt the Cuban people because nothing the United States is doing today contributes significantly to the achievement of any change in the Castro regime.
YES: 45150 Peter F. Allgeier, from Testimony during Hearings on “The Future of the World Trade Organization,” before the Subcommittee on Trade, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives (May 17, 2005)
NO: 45151 Lori Wallach, from Testimony during Hearings on “The Future of the World Trade Organization,” before the Subcommittee on Trade, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives (May 17, 2005)
Peter F. Allgeier, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, describes the World Trade Organization as beneficial to U.S. strategic and economic interests and argues that there is overwhelming value to be gained through continued U.S. participation in the organization. Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, part of Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, maintains that Congress should demand a transformation of the WTO trade rules because they have failed to achieve the promised economic gains and have also undercut an array of non-trade, non-economic policies and goals advantageous to the public interest in the United States and abroad.
YES: 45153 Robert Baugh, from “Currency Manipulation and Labor Violations as Illegal Industrial Subsidies,” Testimony during Hearings on “Chinas World Trade Organization Compliance: Industrial Subsidies and the Impact on U.S. and World Markets,” before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (April 4, 2006)
NO: 45154 John Frisbie, from “U.S.-China Business Council Advocates Balanced Approach on China Trade,” Testimony during Hearings on “U.S.-China Economic Relations Revisited,” before the Finance Committee, U.S. Senate (March 29, 2006)
Robert Baugh, executive director, Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO, asserts that the litany of Chinas failures to meet its trade obligations is extensive and that the failure of the U.S. government to respond strongly has put the country on a dangerous path. John Frisbie, president of the U.S.-China Business Council in Washington, D.C., concedes that there are some difficult issues to resolve with China but argues that jeopardizing the U.S. economy with tariffs or other protectionist measures is not an acceptable way to inform China that it must change some of its policies.
YES: 45172 Dan Siciliano, from Testimony during Hearings on "Immigration: Economic Impact," before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate (April 24, 2006)
NO: 45156 Barry R. Chiswick, from Testimony during Hearings on "Immigration: Economic Impact," before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate (April 24, 2006)
Dan Siciliano, executive director, Program in Law Business and Economics and research fellow with the Immigration Policy Center at the American Immigration Law Foundation, Stanford Law School, contends that immigration provides many economic benefits for the United States. Barry R. Chiswick, UIC Distinguished Professor, and program director, Migration Studies IZA–Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany, takes the position that legal immigration is having a negative impact on the U.S. economy and that illegal immigration increases the problems.
YES: 39347 High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, from "A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility," A Report to the Secretary General of the United Nations (December 2, 2004)
NO: 39348 Steven L. Kenny, from "The National Security Strategy Under the United Nations and International Law," Strategy Research Project, U.S. Army War College (March 19, 2004)
The High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, which was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in response to the global debate on the nature of threats and the use of force to counter them, concludes that in a world full of perceived potential threats, the risk to the global order posed by preemptive war is too great for its legality to be accepted. Colonel Steven L. Kenny argues in a research report he wrote at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, that substantial support from the acceptability of preemptive war results from such factors as the failure of the UN to enforce its charter, customary international law, and the growing threat of terrorists and weapons of mass destruction.
YES: 45158 George W. Bush, from “President Discusses Global War on Terror,” Speech to the Military Officers Association of America (September 5, 2006)
NO: 45159 Bruce Hoffman, from "Combating Al Qaeda and the Militant Islamic Threat," Testimony before the Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities, U.S. House of Representatives (February 16, 2006)
George W. Bush, president of the United States, warns that the road ahead in the war on terrorism is going to be difficult and will require more sacrifice, but also assures his listeners that the strategy to defeat terrorism means that they can have confidence in the outcome. Bruce Hoffman, corporate chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency of Rand, a think tank, and senior fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, argues that U.S. strategy needs to change from waging a global war on terrorism that overemphasizes military action to a broader global counterinsurgency approach that adds equally critical political, economic, diplomatic, and developmental efforts to the military campaign.
YES: 45142 Frank G. Wisner, from "Iran, the United States and the International Community: The Time Is Right to Engage," Testimony during Hearings on “Irans Political/Nuclear Ambitions and U.S. Policy Options,” before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate (May 18, 2006)
NO: 45207 James Phillips, from "U.S. Policy and Irans Nuclear Challenge," Testimony during Hearings on “Irans Political/Nuclear Ambitions and U.S. Policy Options,” before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate (May 18, 2006)
Frank G. Wisner, vice chairman for External Affairs of the American International Group, in New York City, says it is not clear that Iran is determined to build nuclear weapons and urges a policy signaling that the United States not only seeks agreement that will contain the nuclear crisis but is prepared to consider normalizing relations with and giving security guarantees to Iran. James Phillips, research fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., tells Congress that the United States should mobilize an international coalition to pressure Iran to cease its nuclear weapons development program and, if that fails, should consider military options to set back Irans nuclear weapons program.
YES: 45208 Nicholas Eberstadt, from Testimony during Hearings on “North Koreas WMD Program: Purposes and Implications,” before the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific (February 17, 2005)
NO: 45209 Leon V. Sigal, from "A Rogue by Any Other Name," Foreign Service Journal (October 2005)
Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., asserts that North Koreas acquisition of nuclear weapons is designed to facilitate the reunification of the now-divided Korean peninsula under the rule of the Pyongyang regime. Leon V. Sigal, director of the Northeast Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council, New York City, contends that since 1988, North Korea has been trying to end its historic enmity against the United States but has been frustrated by U.S. policy.
YES: 45161 Betty McCollum, from Address to the Board of Directors, United Nations Association of the United States of America (June 8, 2006)
NO: 45799 Clifford D. May, from "The United Nations: Realities and Responses," Commentary on the Web site of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy (January 23, 2005)
Betty McCollum, member of the United States House of Representatives (D-MN), admits that the United Nations has flaws and needs reforms, but argues that the world is far better off than it would be if the UN did not exist. Clifford D. May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, argues that the UN has largely been a failure, that the prospects to reform it are dim, and that the United States and other democracies should create a new international organization to promote global peace, prosperity, and democracy.
YES: 45165 John R. Bolton, from "The United States and the International Criminal Court," Remarks to the Federalist Society (November 14, 2002)
NO: 45164 Briony MacPhee, from "The International Criminal Court: A Case for Conservatives," The American Non-Governmental Organizations Coalition for the International Criminal Court (August 30, 2005)
John R. Bolton, at the time U.S. Under Secretary State for Arms Control and International Security and beginning in 2005, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, explains why President George W. Bush had decided to reject membership in the International Criminal Court. Briony MacPhee, a professional volunteer associate with the American Non-Governmental Organizations Coalition for the International Criminal Court, a program of the United Nations Association of the United States of America, argues that conservatives should join many liberals in supporting the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court.
YES: 45167 Katherine Newell Bierman, from Testimony on "Military Commissions in Light of the Supreme Court Decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld," before the Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate (July 19, 2006)
NO: 45168 Steven G. Bradbury, from Testimony on “Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Establishing a Constitutional Process,” before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate (July 11, 2006)
Katherine Newell Bierman, Counterterrorism Counsel, U.S. Program of Human Rights Watch, urges Congress to ensure that terrorist suspects captured on the battlefield are prosecuted according to the standards of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Steven G. Bradbury, Acting Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, contends that it is neither necessary nor wise to require that military commissions follow all of the procedures of a court-martial when dealing with terrorists for their war crimes.
YES: 45210 Ralph J. Cicerone, from Testimony on “Questions Surrounding the ‘Hockey Stick Temperature Studies: Implications for Climate Change Assessments,” before the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, U.S. House of Representatives (July 27, 2006)
NO: 45170 John R. Christy, from Testimony on “Questions Surrounding the ‘Hockey Stick Temperature Studies: Implications for Climate Change Assessments,” before the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, U.S. House of Representatives (July 27, 2006)
Ralph J. Cicerone, president, National Academy of Sciences, tells Congress that while future climate change and its impacts cannot be precisely forecast, a broad-brush picture of how global warming may affect the Earth is emerging and it contains a range of worrisome impact. John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, argues that projections of drastic climate changes in the future from global warming have not been adequately proved, and it is important not to make radical changes in energy policy based on such projections.