"A new way of looking at the world" is how the Clinton administration describes its "environmental diplomacy" initiative, which aims to make global environmental management a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy. The American Enterprise Institute's 1997 Annual Policy Conference, coinciding with the preliminary meetings of the UN summit in Kyoto on global climate change, will examine this and other new ways of looking at, and responding to, important social, economic, and political problems. One day of conference sessions will consider the administration's position on the climate change treaty and related initiatives of environmental diplomacy.

Other sessions will examine new efforts to repair the social and economic fabric of poor urban communities following the 1996 welfare reform legislation; new paradigms for economic growth in the United States, Asia, and Europe; and innovations in the pricing of private health care and health care insurance. The conference will conclude December 4 with the Institute's Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture, to be delivered by James Q. Wilson. Details inside.