Volume 47, Number 20 · December 21, 2000
The White House & the World
By Tony Judt
It is no secret that the US electorate has little interest in the outside world. According to pre-election polls, only 2 percent of US voters were swayed by a presidential candidate's foreign and defense policies. But for the rest of humanity the president's external policies are all that really count. The American chief executive is the most powerful person in the world, a man who can exercise huge influence for good or ill. At this writing we do not know whether Gore or Bush will become president. But the differences between them in foreign policy should be taken very seriously.
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