Word: isolationism
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Czechoslovakia's Vaclav Havel was just an oppressed dissident playwright when he received an invitation last year to give the keynote address at the 1990 Salzburg music and drama festival. He accepted, figuring he would not be allowed to attend since the Communist government had not let him leave the...
It would do Kohl no harm to acknowledge a debt to a courageous and controversial predecessor. In 1969 Willy Brandt launched his Ostpolitik of reconciliation and rapprochement with the East. It was the first major sustained breakthrough of the cold war in Europe. Brandt went a long way toward allaying...
If Cambodia's future is still problematic, Vietnam's looks more promising. Ever since the Vietnamese withdrew their troops from Cambodia, they have been eagerly waiting for the U.S. to restore diplomatic relations and end the trade embargo that deepens their desperate economic problems. By agreeing to open talks with...
"You cannot imagine your joy at the words 'Take him to the cell.' After many days of isolation," says Qassem, "I sometimes missed seeing the interrogator if he did not show up. To see a human face -- even his!"
OPEN ECONOMIES Bringing Eastern Europe and eventually the Soviet Union into the world economy must be done carefully but expeditiously. The summit leaders should remember that the isolation of Germany after World War I sowed the seeds of its economic collapse and of World War II. The Houston meeting should...