Word: bismarckian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sounds like the debate is indeed up for discussion inside Germany. Kohl's Bismarckian reference to a "German nation" shows that at least one West German is already convinced...
...pages mirror my unsettled feeling. On one hand, we can read warnings from academics, hard-line Cold Warriors and eternal pessimists about how the demise of polarity could take us back to a Bismarckian Europe. But much more common, at least until the dust settles, are the jubilations over the domino theory in reverse. Every-where we're reminded what an exciting time it is to be alive...
...month has erased the lead Dukakis had enjoyed since mid-spring. The Vice President was able to perform that difficult trick by cracking, with negative attacks, the thin ice of support upon which Dukakis had been gliding. Dukakis is answering in kind. Last week he also rehabilitated his wily Bismarckian strategist, John Sasso, who was banished after confessing complicity in an under-the-table video attack exposing Joseph Biden's borrowed phrases...
Moreover, Kennedy's examination of post-Bismarckian Germany neglects the importance of the "vagaries of personality" and "the week-by-week shifts of diplomacy and politics" he discounts as unimportant in world politics. In the 1890's and 1900's Germany quickly rose to become the most powerful nation in Europe, and rivalled the United States and Russia in economic and military resources. Germany's downfall resulted not from economic decline, but from the foolishness of Wilhelm II's Weltpolitik, and provoking America into entering the war. Despite defeat in World War I, Germany still reigned. Hitler's rise...
When the official in charge of the project went to Europe for expert guidance, he spent less time in London than in the Germany of Bismarck, and the Meiji constitution was Japan's parallel to Bismarckian conservatism: sovereignty belonged not to the people but to the Emperor. The Cabinet was responsible not to the legislature but to the throne...