Word: kennan
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...U.S.S.R. produces so many guns at the expense of so much butter is a matter of heated debate. The dean of American Kremlin-watchers, George Kennan, attributes the Soviet accumulation of military firepower to a deep-seated insecurity "flowing from Russia's relative weakness and vulnerability." Richard Pipes, the hard-line anti-Soviet historian from Harvard who now serves as a specialist on Communist affairs for the National Security Council staff, stresses offensive over the defensive drives. "Militarism," he says, "is as central to Soviet Communism as the pursuit of profit is to capitalist societies," and this militarism...
...While Kennan advocates detente and Pipes favors a more confrontational policy, their views on the motivation of Soviet militarism are not entirely incompatible. Both would agree that the U.S.S.R. is the world's ultimate national security state...
Harvard's committee currently publishes a list of courses relating to women's issues and tries to create new courses within the existing departments, Kennan said, adding, "We want to integrate the study of women's issues throughout the Harvard curriculum...
...through Washington last week people were recalling the age of Roosevelt, Acheson, Truman, Lovett, Forrestal, Kennan, Vandenberg, Eisenhower, Dulles and many more. It was a time when men and women moved in and out of Government, preserving and nurturing an attitude about U.S. participation in international affairs. More often than not they buried partisan feelings, consulted closely and hammered out lasting compromises that were clearly in the national interest. They assumed their responsibility principally out of a sense of obligation, and then because they enjoyed the work...
...over why the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan last December. Hawkish observers-including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski-have argued that the move could turn out to be Moscow's first big step toward the oil and warm waters of the Persian Gulf. Historian George Kennan and other defenders of détente say no, the Kremlin was acting defensively to shore up its southern border. Not surprisingly, the latter interpretation is endorsed in the Soviet Union. Also not surprisingly, an insistence on the defensive, legitimate and temporary nature of the Afghan operation echoed throughout interviews conducted by TIME Diplomatic...