How did Anthony Lake's ideas shape US strategy in the context of the immediate post-cold war period?

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[...] ● Central belief: “to the extent democracy and market economics hold sway in other nations, our own nation will be more secure, prosperous and influential” ○ Expansion of market-based economics abroad → expands American exports and creates American jobs ○ The addition of new democracies → protects America as “democracies tend not to wage war on each other” as far as Democratic Peace Theory (DPT) goes. Four Components to the US strategy of Enlargement : 1. Strengthening the (existing) community of major market democracies, which included strengthening the American democracy itself 2. Helping foster and consolidate new democracies and market economies, where possible, but particularly in states of special significance and opportunity 3. Countering the aggression - and supporting the liberalization - of states hostile to democracy and markets (i.e of so-called “Backlash” States such as Iran and Iraq) 4. [...]

[...] How did Anthony Lake's ideas shape the US strategy in the context of the immediate post-cold war period ? Anthony Lake ● Major architect of the Bill Clinton's administration's foreign policy ● Vice consul in Saigon and Hue during the Vietnam War ● Occupied senior positions in the Nixon and Carter Administrations ● Executive Director of UNICEF until 2017 ● Historic Crossroads: Containment → post-USSR world order ● No consensus among scholars or gov officials on which FP to adopt: Context Protectionism and limited foreign involvement? [...]

[...] ○ Post Cold War : expansion NATO, move from the GATT to the World Trade Organization, reform of the United Nations ● The United States avoided any costly and draining conflicts, retained its position as the world's preeminent power in a way that avoided the creation of any overt counterbalancing coalition ● The electorate at home was more concerned with domestic affairs and that US superiority was not guaranteed forever. ● Primacy did not free the US from a host of thorny challenges — and might create new ones, as well. [...]