Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard teaching Soc Rel 296, "Tradition, Change, and Modernity." In the course, as in most of his books, he applies sociological tools and concepts to the analysis of historical societies. In particular, he describes the process of modernization, applying his theories to developing countries in Africa and Asia...
...doubt have as great an impact on technology, history and human society as any other profession; for any student of history knows that the preservation of liberty and peace at home and abroad, the implementation of the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation, the liberation of Europe and Asia, the enforcement of civil rights laws and decisions, and the maintenance of internal security, were in the final analysis accomplished by the armed forces...
...Japan. The Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn places the restructuring of Washington-Tokyo relations among the top five priorities of the new Administration in the foreign field; former U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Edwin Reischauer, not surprisingly, places it even higher. Reischauer also notes that in the rest of Asia a precipitate U.S. pullout from Viet Nam, or a thinly veiled sellout, could well ensure eventual Chinese domination of the whole region. He looks instead for "a continuing, even if less conspicuous" U.S. role in Asia after Viet Nam-a view that Nixon may not share...
Reischauer warned against pulling out of Southeast Asia "in a clumsy, helter-skelter way." Such a withdrawal, he said, would further damage American prestige and cause friendly nations to lose confidence...
...generally glum outlook is brightened, Lee said, by the possibility that the United States effort in South Vietnam will convince all the powers in Southeast Asia that wars of national liberation can enlarge into dangerously wide conflicts...