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...allies and the rest of the world. He has already done a lot, simply by presiding over a Soviet Union that is easier to see anew as a great big country with great big troubles and that is trying to get out of the 20th century in one piece...
...bang of nuclear Armageddon) are suddenly lamenting "the end of history"; now that the good guys have won and the Manichaean struggle is over, humanity will have nothing but a lot of boring technical and local problems to deal with. It is a silly idea but a telling one, for it underscores the dilemma facing all Western foreign-policy thinkers * and doers, starting with George Bush: the fading of the cold war in and of itself does not provide a road map or a compass for the post-cold...
...Bush can muster "the vision thing," he should apply it to the development of a new internationalism, a new geopolitics that prepares the West, and perhaps the West and East together, to manage the looming problems that will make the chapter now beginning every bit as challenging as the one, mercifully, coming to an end. Whether the new period will be known as the Gorbachev era belongs to that category of unanswerable questions on which it is better not to waste time. But whatever the next stage of history comes to be called, there is no question that Gorbachev...
...stagnation." Harsh as that word sounds, it is actually a euphemism; it really means general decline. Gorbachev personifies to his own people, and should personify to the outside world, a damning revelation about Soviet history: Russia made a huge mistake at the beginning of the 20th century, one that it is trying to correct as it prepares to enter the 21st. Having already missed out on what the 18th and 19th centuries offered in the way of modernity, including much of the Industrial Revolution and the democratic revolution, Russia then missed whatever chance World War I and the collapse...
...West the era of stagnation was seen as one of Soviet ascendancy -- even, in some key and dangerous respects, of Soviet supremacy. Here was a vast, mysterious country on the other side of the globe from the U.S., the Great Geopolitical and Ideological Antipode. It was believed to be possessed of immense and malignant strength, including the self-confidence, prowess and resources for the conduct of all-out war. Even now, with the Pentagon looking for ways to trim its budget, U.S. defense policy includes a caveat: the West must be prepared for the danger that Gorbachev will be overthrown...