peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley) (06/26/84)
The economic rationale for US foreign policy (the US has to unfairly exploit a number of countries to maintain its standard of living; it is necessary to ensure that these countries are kept under sufficient control to continue this exploitation) that Sophie Quigley mentioned makes a lot of sense, in a capitalistic, Machiavellian way. The director Costa-Gravas, admittedly biased, has the US ambassador to Chile giving this rationale in his film "Missing" (which told the story of the US-supported coup in '72). Further, trilateralism was, at least in the Carter era, a major influence on foreign policy and it sees foreign policy as directly determined by economic interests. (I'm not being alarmist about trilateralism; I only note that it exists as a strong foreign policy influence based on economics). "Economics and US Foreign Policy" would be a great title for a book. Has anyone heard of such a publication? p. rowley, U. Toronto