Category: International relations

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“The Real Question…Europe’s Security”
V. Interdependence, Autarchy, Ideology

London, England September 19, 1973   West “We’ve achieved strategic parity. But we haven’t achieved economic parity.” This comment by a leading Soviet professor during my visit to Moscow indicates the skepticism among Russian intellectuals about the regime’s management of the ailing Soviet economy. To

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“The Real Question…Europe’s Security”
IV. The Durability of Détente

London, England September 17, 1973   The debate among Western analysts in Moscow over the origins of Russia’s current policy of détente abroad and repression at home — and its likely durability — now centers, the visitor finds, around a thesis attributed to Henry Kissinger’s

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“The Real Question…Europe’s Security”
III. Which Brezhnev D’Ya Read?

London, England September 12, 1973   ‘I am not dangerous…(In the nuclear age) there is no alternative to conducting relations between our two countries on the basis of peaceful coexistence…We want the further development of our relations to become…an irreversible one…to give these relations maximum

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Pacific Unity and Division

Honolulu   December 4, 1970   It may well be that the Pacific Islands will be mostly preoccupied with their own emergence and development in the early years of the 1970s. Regionalism has special problems in an ocean so vast. Still, there has been both