The purpose of our twenty-sixth class is to examine the foreign policy challenges that faced the Bill Clinton administration and assess how these might best be characterized and appraise how they were handled. We will focus on two case studies, typical of post-Cold War issues and problems: the turmoil in Somalia and the conflict in the Balkans among Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia. What was the importance of Bill Clinton as an American foreign policymaker? What, in particular, is he remembered for? Did he have foreign policy triumphs? Flaws?
