Algeria Recipe

       Their plan -- called the "Minutemen Project" after the heroes of the American Revolution -- does not have the sanction of the U.S. government. Michael Nicley, head of the U.S. Border Patrol in the sector where the Minutemen will operate, is quoted as calling the plan "a recipe for tragedy." ... [Read More]

A third scenario: A dejure partition of Iraq, a recipe forstructural instability in the Gulf and the Middle East. A fourthscenario is a federal Iraq. A federal Iraq based on ethnic lines,or religious lines. I would consider it, honestly, to be a hidden,concealed or a promised partition at a later date. ... [Read More]

Kevin A. Hassett and James K. Glassman, "Understanding the Role of the United States in the Global Economy," American Internationalism - U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda - August 2003, Department of State, International Information Programs

Liberalized trade -- in broadly multilateral, regional or bilateral agreements -- is a key ingredient in the recipe for prosperity. And the benefits for developing countries are even greater -- on a proportional basis -- than for the United States. New global trade negotiations will, if they succeed, generate $90 billion to $190 billion a year in higher incomes for developing nations, according to a study by Joseph Francois of Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Recent World Bank research found that developing countries that embraced globalization grew three-and-a-half times faster than developing countries that did not. As Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, put it, "The poor are poor not because of too much globalization but because of too little." ... [Read More]