In 1997 a very select group of analysts, practitioners, and scholars assembled at the University of Oklahoma to lay the ground work for a new United States foreign policy that will promote our nation's ideals while protecting its vital interests in the post-cold war era. This carefully edited collection includes major policy statements and roundtable discussions by the best minds of our time as they devise criteria for the employment of military force, economic and trade priorities, a broad covert intelligence mission, and the protection of our planet's ecology -- all in the context of our pluralistic society and instantaneous global communication.