Invitation to TransAfrica Forum's 11th Annual Foreign Policy Conference "After the Cold War: Will the U.S. Abandon Africa and the Caribbean?" on June 5, 1992 at Conference Auditorium, Dirksen Senate Office Building. Panels: I) Africa and U.S. Foreign Policy in the New World Order, II) U.S. Aid Policy and Multiparty Democracy, III) Debt, Drugs and Democracy in the Caribbean, and IV) U.S. Refugee Policy. Panelists include Francis Deng, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Carol Lancaster, Professor, Georgetown University; John Hicks, Assistant Administrator for Africa, USAID; Randall Robinson, Executive Director, TransAfrica Forum; Arthur Helton, Director, Refugee Project, Lawyers Committee...
Invitation to TransAfrica Forum's 11th Annual Foreign Policy Conference "After the Cold War: Will the U.S. Abandon Africa and the Caribbean?" on June 5, 1992 at Conference Auditorium, Dirksen Senate Office Building. Panels: I) Africa and U.S. Foreign Policy in the New World Order, II) U.S. Aid Policy and Multiparty Democracy, III) Debt, Drugs and Democracy in the Caribbean, and IV) U.S. Refugee Policy. Panelists include Francis Deng, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Carol Lancaster, Professor, Georgetown University; John Hicks, Assistant Administrator for Africa, USAID; Randall Robinson, Executive Director, TransAfrica Forum; Arthur Helton, Director, Refugee Project, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights; Wade Henderson, Director, NAACP-Washington, D.C. Office; Richard Bernal, Jamaica Ambassador to the United States; Bertram M. Lee, Board Chairman, TransAfrica Forum; William LeoGrande, Professor, American University; Douglas Hellinger, Managing Director, Development GAP; and Joe Davidson, Wall Street Journal. In this presidential campaign year, the U.S. is preoccupied primarily with domestic concerns. In the midst of a changing world order in which Japan is emerging as America's primary rival and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are the focal point for Western assistance and potential market growth, policy emphasis is on redirecting or decreasing foreign aid spending, resistance to fair immigration and refugee policy, and little national debate on U.S. foreign policy in general. The biggest losers in this climate stand to be the nations of Africa and the Caribbean, which for years they were mere pawns in the Cold War game between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
