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...expert on the defense policy, he advised presidential administrations from 1955 to 1968, before officially joining Nixon's staff. He received international recognition for his studies of the Cold War. In the 1960 work The Necessity for Choice, he originated the "missile gap" hypothesis, and he was later instrumental in engineering the first strategic arms limitation talks (SALT) between the United States and the Soviet Union...
...many dangerous warheads. Bush and his advisers mulled over that concept a year ago in Austin, Texas, then set it aside for the primaries. The topic popped up again during his Sunday phone conferences with Condoleezza Rice and other aides. On May 2, Bush summoned Rice, defense expert Paul Wolfowitz and campaign-policy director Josh Bolton to his new ranch outside Waco to nail down a proposal to announce in time to color this week's U.S.-Russia summit. (Before getting to business, Bush insisted on grabbing a pickup truck and taking the three on an off-road tour...
...continuity while unveiling his foreign policy centerpiece - a distinctly Reaganesque missile defense strategy. Standing behind the candidate during a media conference at the Washington Press Club was a chorus line of foreign policy players from administrations past, including President Bush's national security adviser Brent Scowcroft; his Russia expert Condoleeza Rice (who now serves as chief foreign policy adviser to Bush the younger); and his Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Colin Powell, as well as former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Schultz. The message in the photo opportunity was unmistakable: I may not be able to name...
Harvard's Samuel P. Huntington, an expert in international affairs who co-edited the book with Lawrence E. Harrison, begins by wondering why, say, South Korea and Ghana, which had roughly the same GNP in 1960, went on to such different economic destinies--South Korea becoming an industrial giant, Ghana remaining pretty much unchanged. "It seemed to me," writes Huntington, "that culture had to be a large part of the explanation. South Koreans valued thrift, investment, hard work, education, organization and discipline. Ghanaians had different values. In short, cultures count...
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