Beware of Historians Bearing False Analogies

A response to the book "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" by Paul Kennedy (1987).IC2 Institut

The National Interest and Objectives

It has been - and remains - the American interest to maintain a world environment for the United States within which our form of society can continue to develop in conformity with the humanistic principles which are its foundation

The Challenge Facing the United States

The challenge facing the United States is, in its essence, simple: can we prevent the enemy from fulfilling his intention? His intention is to drive the United States from power and in­fluence in Eurasia; to isolate the United States on this Continent; and to deal with us in his own good time from the preponderant base he would then control

The Domestic Determinants of Foreign Policy or the Tocqueville Oscillation

A distinguished psychiatrist at Yale, at the time when Andy McBurney and I were there together once was asked by a lady in a question period after a lecture, \u27\u27What do the undergraduates think about sex when they discover It? He replied in three words, They like it

U.S. Policy in the Far East - Communist China

My discussion of Communist China today has a special and arbitrary focus. It is designed to indicate how the situation in Communist China relates to forces over which the United States can exercise some measure of control or influence, direct or in­direct

Politico-Economic World Developments As They Affect NATO Nations in the 1970\u27s

Two underlying forces that are at work on the world scene are the diffusion of power away from Moscow and Washington and the decline of the aggressive revolutionary romantics. With an understanding of these forces the existing dangers that confront mankind must be probed seriously, with confidence and caution

Lines of U.S. Action in the Far East

In discussing Communist China it is impossible not to have in the back of your mind the problems of U.S. action, and we believe it is far better to have the research man\u27s views laid out explicitly for all to examine and to criticize, rather than to leave them implicit in the way he has organized his alleged facts, or in the way he selects certain facts as relevant and ignores certain others