Word: withing
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The indebtedness and poverty of the Third World threaten the trend of democracy there. The indebtedness of the U.S., both to itself and to foreigners, threatens its prosperity at home and its influence abroad. The consequences of Japan's emergence as an economic superpower could end up dwarfing the current...
The U.S. and its principal partners have no coherent strategy for dealing with these and other mega-issues. Until now, the cold war provided an alibi.
Even as he is thanked by the masses, Gorbachev is quietly cursed, only half- jokingly, by some in the foreign-policy elite for having kicked the centerpiece out from under the big top of American diplomacy. All of a sudden, the think tanks and back rooms of the policymaking establishment...
Yet in the 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...
Scenarios for a Soviet invasion of Western Europe have always had a touch of paranoid fantasy about them. In the late 1940s, when Western Europe was weak and virtually defenseless, the Soviet Union itself was exhausted and overextended. Yes, Joseph Stalin "conquered" Eastern Europe -- Exhibit A in the charge of...