Series 1, Number 11 (Summer 1998): Toward a "Social Foreign Policy" with Asia

This volume reports on the April 2-3, 1998 conference "Toward a ‘Social Foreign Policy' with Asia: Fostering Links Between Americans and East Asians on Shared Social Concerns," co-sponsored by the Carnegie Council and the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. The conference brought together leading organizations and individuals specializing in three key issue areas—housing, the environment, and foreign workers—to discuss the dislocations produced by rapid globalization and social change, and to describe how members of societies in Asia and the United States are coping with them. During discussions, participants proposed several social and human rights foreign policy solutions in Asia and the U.S., based on society-to society linkages and a shared problems approach.

Introduction

• Introduction: Toward a "Social Foreign Policy" with Asia: Fostering Links Between Americans and East Asians on Shared Social Concerns

The Relevance of Social Problems to International Affairs

• The Common Ground
• AGENDA
• Why a Social Dimension to Foreign Policy Is Vital to U.S.-East Asia Relations
• Bringing Lessons Home: A Perspective from USAID
• Challenges of Globalization
• A "Shopping List" for the Future Agenda for Globalization

Exploring Commonality

• The Housing Issue: Parallels in the United States and East Asia
• Housing in the Philippines
• Housing in the United States
• On International NGO Cooperation: A View from the American Grassroots
• Developing a "Social Foreign Policy" for the Lived Realities of Migrant Workers
• Addressing the Plight of Migrant Workers in the United States and Asia: Opportunities and Challenges in Applying Human Rights Standards

Cultural and Institutional Requisites for a Shared Problems Approach

• The U.S. and Asia: Cultivating Common Ground for a “Social Foreign Policy”
• The Challenges to a Shared Problems Approach to Foreign Policy
• Does Culture Matter?