Word: bismarckians
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...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...
...sense, of course, Kissinger's nomination was simply a confirmation of the true state of American diplomacy. It was Kissinger, the theorist of a Bismarckian balance of power, who had created the intellectual framework for Nixon's greatest achievements in foreign policy, the new detente with China, the progressive improvement of relations with the Soviet Union and, finally, the truce in Viet Nam. It was Kissinger, too, who personally brought those theories into reality in an endless series of secret flights and exhaustive negotiations in Peking, Moscow, Paris. Secretary of State Rogers traveled to official conferences and presided...
...TERMS OF whom she knew, Lou Andreas-Salome was Germany's Gertrude Stein. The roll call of her associates is virtually a Who's Who of post-Bismarckian literary and intellectual history, and the succession of men in her life sounds like one of H. Stuart Hughes's reading lists...