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From: Carolina Cordeiro <carolinambc@netcabo.pt>
List Editor: "H-DIPLO [Ball]" <h-d1plo@SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU>
Editor's Subject: Clinton's dual containment policy [Cordeiro]
Author's Subject: Clinton's dual containment policy [Cordeiro]
Date Written: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:01:37 -0800
Date Posted: Thu, 24 Nov 2004 10:01:37 -0500

I am writing a paper on Clinton's Middle East policy and have been
struck by its emphasis on a dual containment and sanctions strategy.
I would like to hear your opinion on how far was Clinton's policy of
dual containment toward Iran and Iraq significantly different from
previous Administrations policies towards Middle East? Did it cut with a
tradition of always keeping one of the two (Iran or Iraq) as an ally?
Could this strategy have been a major cause of a regional desequilibrium
and the creation of an anti-american axis led by the two regimes?
Thank you in advance for your answers.


Carolina Cordeiro
PhD in Instituto Estudos Políticos, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Lisbon, Portugal

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