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ENGAGING THE WORLD: ANTHONY LAKE AND AMERICAN GRAND STRATEGY, 1993–1997*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2016

FRANK L. JONES*
Affiliation:
US Army War College
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Department of National Security and Strategy, US Army War College, Carlisle, PA 17015, USAfrank.l.jones.civ@mail.mil

Abstract

Using recently available archival material, this article examines Lake's key beliefs and the part they had in shaping US grand strategy in the first Clinton administration. Lake operated as one of the major architects of the administration's foreign policy. His intellectual influence commenced in the 1992 presidential campaign, when he served as candidate Bill Clinton's principal foreign policy adviser, and continued through the first presidential term, reaching its most concrete manifestation in the Clinton administration's 1994 National security strategy. The article analyses Lake's ideas and his overarching concerns about national purpose, his strategic vision, and his definition of national security policy objectives using the analytical framework known as a mental map. Likewise, it considers his role in articulating a new grand strategy during a period of strategic adjustment, one in which the cold war doctrine of containment no longer applied.

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Footnotes

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I am grateful to Stephen Gerras for sharing his expertise on psychology, and the two anonymous referees for their constructive comments. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defence, or the US government.

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77 Ibid., pp. 2–6.

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103 Lake, ‘American power and American democracy’.

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114 Ibid., p. 12.

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139 Anthony Lake, Lecture on United States relations with Africa (speech, Howard University, history department's fall lecture series, Washington, DC, 17 Oct. 1977), box 59, ALP.

140 Tony Smith, ‘Wilsonianism after Iraq: the end of liberal internationalism?’, in Ikenberry et al., The crisis of American foreign policy, pp. 66–7.

141 For the argument about making the world safe for democracy in the twenty-first century, see Slaughter, ‘Wilsonianism in the twenty-first century’, p. 109. Lake's perspective is found in his notes on foreign policy speech meeting with President Clinton, 30 Jan. 1993, box 43, and ‘Remarks’ (Brookings African forum luncheon, Washington, DC, 3 May 1993), box 63, ALP.

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147 ‘U.S. foreign policy: no easy answers’, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 1994.

148 For a discussion of the struggle between virtue and power in US foreign policy, see Kane, Between virtue and power, pp. 2, 32–49.

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