Blog Post
America''s National Interests 2000, produced in July by the Belfer Center in collaboration with the Nixon Center and RAND, offers a clue to what a new Republican foreign policy might look like. The report outlines a national interest-based, security-oriented, realist approach to foreign policy— an approach that has been promoted by members of President Bush''s foreign policy team.
At his confirmation hearing in January, Secretary of State Colin Powell echoed the central message of the report saying, "America must be involved in the world. And we must be involved according to our national interest, and not in some haphazard way that seems more dictated by the crisis of the day than by serious, thoughtful foreign policy."
The bipartisan Commission on America''s National Interests includes many prominent Republicans, including National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Deputy Secretary of State designate Richard Armitage, and Senators John McCain and Pat Roberts. The Commission also includes Robert D. Blackwill (a lead author of the report with Graham T. Allison), who served on the National Security Council transition team with Richard A. Falkenrath.
The report can be read in full at http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/BCSIA/Library.nsf/pubs/Nat-Interest2.