Word: bipolarity
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Despite his clear belief that revolutionary movements are changing the shape of world politics. Landau mouths the old cliches out "bipolar world" Regarding developments since the nineteenth century, he writes uncategorically. Where multipolarity existed before, bipolarity between the Soviet Union and the United States is the central feature of current international relations." Landau is similarly two-faced in his distinctions between Kennedy and Nixon foreign policy. In a cogent passage, he recalls the "chauvinism" of the Kennedy Administration which pledged "it would fight anywhere and at any time to achieve its goals." The Nixon Administration is less idealistic: it will...
...fading of tensions along some of the fault lines dividing the old bipolar world does not necessarily mean that Richard Nixon's generation of peace is at hand. It is too easily forgotten now that a lively era of negotiations-centering around, among other things, the Big Four summit in Geneva, the Bandung Conference, the Re-packi Plan for reduction of forces in Europe-flourished after the Korean armistice during the 1950s, only to disappear in a renewal of the cold...
...given prime responsibility for the assaults and atrocities of Japanese forces. With Richard Nixon's overtures toward Peking, Britain's probable entry into the Common Market, and West German negotiations with the Soviet Union, the world has assumed a new shape in which several power centers will replace the bipolar Washington-Moscow pattern that has defined the international scene since World War II. In that new world, the role of Japan is crucial...
...they look beyond their shores that the Japanese find the world most troubling. Laments Shinkichi Eto, respected Tokyo University professor of political science: "Japanese leadership has no grand political vision, no long-range plan of national aims." That seemed not to matter very much through the long years of bipolar, East-West confrontation. "But now that the multipolar world is emerging," Eto adds, "the Japanese suddenly have no idea what they should...
...Modern communications link the world so closely together that a raw display of power in Pyongyang, for example, may produce severe reverberations in Moscow almost instantly. In addition, even small nations today have enough firepower of their own to blow an unfriendly gunboat out of the water. And the bipolar alliances that arose from the ashes of World War II almost inevitably ensure that a blow struck at a weak nation may be answered by a considerably more powerful ally. As a result, the big powers' key problem is how to control the actions of their smaller brethren: consciously...