Why did Bush choose Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank?
Bush is showing both the international community and his partisans that he has the will and the ability to increase the US’s direct leadership over multilateral institutions. This is true for the World Bank as well as the UN, where it will be more difficult. Bush could have reappointed Wolfensohn to head the World Bank for a third term. After all, Wolfensohn stated to the press, ‘I’ve had the impression from the administration that they are perfectly pleased with what has happened here in recent years. [3] It was not Wolfensohn’s appointment by a Democratic administration that stopped Bush from doing so. Bush wants an American foreign policy strategy that is purely a product of the state apparatus while maintaining an excellent relationship with the neo-conservative intelligentsia and business milieus. In some ways, Wolfowitz’s nomination resembles that of McNamara. In 1968, as Secretary of Defence, he had relinquished his post as leader of the war in Vietnam when events took a turn fo
