Word: bipolarity
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...Spike takes this idea, adds best-seller ingredients, and transposes it to a more timely bipolar conflict--that of the United States and the Soviet Union. The latest ads for The Spike goad the public into paying 13 bucks to read what the "liberal journalist establishment" has almost universally panned. See what those sullied liberal press types are scared of, the ad continues. After all, chances are that those who reviewed the book in the liberal publications are tyomhaya verboura...
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY under Zbigniew Brzezinski is returning to its state under our last realpolitik, government-professor National Security Adviser: a nearsighted, bipolar view of the world which cares less about a nation's welfare or common interests with us than about its value in the life-or-death wrestling match between the two superpowers. In a world that has a third arena no one can ignore, the stupidity of such a view could be fatal. Looking at developing nations merely as pawns in the game against the U.S.S.R., with a blind eye to their internal affairs, is what first...
...problems ahead. Says he: "The President's line is set. The policy is defined. Muskie is a centrist. I'm largely a centrist. I don't want to fight. He doesn't want to fight." And Brzezinski quips: "Senator Muskie's view of the world and mine are bipolar...
...does have a responsibility to force the Soviet Union to see that such actions have grave international consequences. But Carter's militaristic response is not the right answer. The president is relying on the same assumptions that have doomed our foreign policy in the past--the belief in a bipolar world, in matching militarism with militarism. He is playing brinkmanship with the Soviets, threatening them with war to check their warlike advance...
...contained the expanding Russian influence in that region then the USSR would remain second to the US in a basically bipolar balance of power. If Washington could ensure its paramountcy in the region, control the access to its raw materials and be the watchman of its waterways, then it would have maintained a powerful leverage over western Europe and Japan. The "stability" of the international order depends on the containment of the liberation movements and the preservation of pro-US regimes in this strategic area more than in any other. Finally, a successful Persian Gulf intervention appears as the master...