What is Bill Clinton’s Grand Strategy?

American foreign policy in the first months of the Clinton Administration was largely reactive in nature. “Damage control” was the order of the day. Efforts at exercising global leadership, either unilaterally or in a collective setting, were sporadic and when undertaken met with little success. In Bosnia, the major international peace initiative under way to end the fighting in Bosnia when Clinton took office was the Vance-Owens plan, which would have split Bosnia into ten semiautonomous provinces united only by a loose central authority. Later on, the Clinton administration outlined conditions for the use of troops in Bosnia to enforce a peace settlement. It also saw three resignations by State Department officials critical of what one termed a “misguided, vacillating, and dangerous” policy.  Stung by the mounting criticism of the content and conduct of its foreign policy, the Clinton administration sought to regain conceptual control over the direction of American foreign policy by having high-ranking administration members present an orchestrated series of high-profile public speeches in September 1993.

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