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ver since Foreign Affairs published George Kennan's seminal article, The Sources of Soviet Conduct, which outlined what was to become President Harry Truman's strategy of containment, succeeding administrations have sought to coin a phrase that encapsulates their foreign and defense policies. From the Eisenhower-Dulles New Look to Bush-Baker's multinational new world order, foreign policy monikers have been concocted for the purpose of convincing both America's overseas allies and its domestic electorate that the current administration, far from being caught in the shifting tides of ad hoc diplomacy, had a long-range grand plan. Thus it came as no surprise when on September 27, 1993, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, President Bill Clinton tried to elucidate his foreign policy agenda by offering up the concept of democratic enlargement. While campaigning in 1992, Clinton had outlined what he con-
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