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The "imagistic" approach to foreign affairs has inherent dangers. First, there is no necessary connection between a nation's policy and the stereotypes (a less modish synonym) that its citizens believe: assuming there is such a connection may lead one to either foolishly convert one's own policy into ineffective...
Any approach to disarmament and disengagement that relies primarily upon the idea of electing peace by majority vote must necessarily fall. The problem of evolving national policy is very complex. For example, many decisions rest upon the solution of problems of the following kind: "we would not have another nation...
A more important situation occurs when, although it is agreed that policy 'X' is clearly objectionable, one argues that the other nation would not carry it out, even if it could. Almost all the arguments for significant unilateral steps toward disarmament have this type of structure. Note, however, that in...
But we, as peace- seekers, should never forgot the possibility that policy 'X' may indeed be unacceptable to our nation (solely because it ultimately would result in a painful decrease in our national security and well-being) and that another nation would indeed carry out policy 'X' if it could...
Minor observations: Professor Riesman's statement that the men who produced the Daedalus symposium on arms control were "mad rationalists" Is incorrect, dangerously misleading, detrimental to his cause, and symptomatle of the under-current of panic which has affected some of our best minds. We have the good images: We...