Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter called the U.S. "the most wasteful nation on earth," adding: "We waste more energy than we import." Claiming that "we can't substantially increase our domestic production," Carter said the U.S. will become perilously dependent on increasingly costly imported oil. "We could endanger our freedom as a sovereign nation to act in foreign affairs," and we would "constantly live in fear of embargoes." There would be pressure "to plunder the environment" in a crash program to expand nuclear plants, strip mining and the drilling of offshore wells. Regions within the U.S. would compete with each other for supplies. "Inflation...
Henry Kissinger sought to avoid this trap by arguing that policy must be based on a mutual self-interest, not on moral approval. Principles could be proclaimed, but any attempt to change conditions in other countries had to be made behind the scenes, if only because sovereign nations cannot allow themselves to be pushed around in public...
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Jamaica has many friends. One of them is Cuba. Your coupling of Jamaica with Cuba shows up a paranoia about our country asserting its sovereign right to choose its own friends...
...system of international relations is in a transitional period now, Colby said. "We have not yet developed an international order to replace the sovereign state system," he said...