When President Bill Clinton was inaugurated in 1993, he stressed a new policy concerning a revived United Nations and the actions that would be taken by the United States concerning the “New World Order,” a term coined by his predecessor George Bush depicting the post-Cold War international arena. Clinton had campaigned on the need for a multilateral organization to share costs and share risks of any peacekeeping venture. The Clinton Administration had made multilateralism a campaign …showed first 75 words of 676 total…

…showed last 75 words of 676 total…it mustn’t be the centerpiece of a foreign policy agenda as Clinton had sought it to be. The reasons why Clinton eventually took this approach were three-fold. The military, exemplified by Powell’s emphatic stance, were against the entire idea. Congress, after Somalia, was weary of further intervention, as was the public. This case study details the problems that can occur within an administration when ideological differences abound, particularly between military and political players.