01:510:261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: North American Free Trade Agreement, Contract With America, Health Maintenance Organization
13 May 2018
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Chapter 27 - Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989–2000
1. "Globalization" in the late twentieth century
1. Conceptions of
2. Emerging controversy over
2. Post–Cold War world
1. Crisis of communism and end of Cold War
1. China
1. Popular democracy movement
2. Suppression of protest
2. Eastern Europe
1. Popular protest
2. Soviet nonintervention
3. Collapse of Communist regimes ("Velvet Revolution")
1. Germany: removal of Berlin Wall; reunification
2. Elsewhere
3. Soviet Union
1. Economic chaos
2. National and ethnic tensions
3. Attempted coup
4. Dissolution
4. Implications of Cold War's end
1. Global prevalence of capitalism, "free market" model
2. Prospects for spread of democracy
3. Emergence of United States as uncontested
superpower
2. President George Bush and the New World Order
1. Uncertain meaning of New World Order
2. Invasion of Panama
1. Purposes
2. Outcome
3. Controversy over
3. Gulf War
1. Background: invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein
2. Buildup to war
1. Dispatch of U.S. troops to Gulf region
2. Debate over prospective war with Iraq
3. Forging by Bush of multinational coalition
4. Securing of United Nations authorization
3. The war: Operation Desert Storm
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1. Prompt U.S. victory; ouster of Iraq from Kuwait
2. Minimum of American casualties
3. High death toll for Iraqis
4. Aftermath
1. UN sanctions on Iraq
2. Survival of Hussein regime
3. Resentment in region over U.S. presence
4. Surge in Bush's popularity
4. Competing post–Cold War doctrines
1. General Colin Powell's vision
2. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney's vision
3. Election of 1992
1. Growing disenchantment with Bush, Republicans
1. Economic recession
2. Remoteness of Bush on domestic issues
3. Pat Buchanan's "cultural war"
2. Democratic challenger: Bill Clinton
1. Popular appeal; empathy for economic anxieties
2. Blend of liberal and conservative approaches
3. Independent challenger: H. Ross Perot
4. Clinton victory
4. Clinton domestic policy, first two years
1. Departures from Reagan-Bush approach
1. Cabinet and judicial appointments
2. Tax policies
3. Spending plan for infrastructure and job training
2. Continuities from Reagan-Bush approach
1. Free trade doctrine
2. North American Free Trade Agreement
3. Health care reform initiative
1. Background
1. Rising cost of health care
2. Growing number of uninsured
3. Limited coverage by Health Maintenance
Organizations
2. Clinton plan
1. Role of Hillary Rodham Clinton
2. Provisions
3. Resistance to plan
1. Sources
2. Themes
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4. Outcome
1. Defeat of plan
2. Subsequent growth in ranks of uninsured
5. Republican sweep of 1994
1. Background: public disenchantment with Clinton
2. Republican challenge
1. Leadership of Newt Gingrich
2. Proposed "Contract With America"
1. Shrinking of government
2. Reduction in taxes
3. Deregulation
4. Overhaul of welfare
5. Elimination of affirmative action
3. Scope of electoral triumph
4. Gingrich Republicans in power
1. Implementation of "Contract With America"
2. Standoff with Clinton; government shutdown
3. Recoiling of public from Gingrich, "Contract With
America"
6. Clinton's move toward center: "triangulation"
1. Strategy
1. Repudiation of "big government"
2. Co-optation of moderate Republican themes
3. Rejection of extreme Republican themes
2. Initiatives
1. Telecommunications Act
2. Abolition of federal welfare system
3. Outcome
1. Neutralization of Republican challenge
2. Reelection victory over Bob Dole
3. Affirmation of mainstream Republican premises
7. Clinton and world affairs
1. Agenda
1. Resolve ongoing global conflicts
2. Restore emphasis on human rights
2. Mixed record
1. Fruitful efforts in Northern Ireland, Haiti
2. Fruitless efforts in Middle East
3. Lack of effort in China, Rwanda
3. Balkan crisis
1. Background
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