Word: kennan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gaidar, though he may still hope to run for President someday, "he doesn't have the political skills to bring people around to a position they otherwise wouldn't take," says Blair Ruble, director of the Kennan Institute of Advanced Russian Studies in Washington. Just who, Ruble asks, is really out there selling reform to the Russian public? He sees no one doing the job. "They've got to cajole, to bring people into the tent...
...begin, of course, by spending some of the $745 million in technical aid that Washington has planned for the next two years. The real payoff, says Blair Ruble, director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, may eventually come "from small-scale private initiatives. But I also think we need to commit ourselves in a visible way, so the world understands we are engaged in the process of democratization in the former Soviet Union...
...prudent player of the good cards dealt him by the collapse of communism. But in a fragmented and challenging new world, American foreign policy needs a conceptual overhaul, the kind of coherent vision that it got in a simpler past from such men as Dean Acheson and George Kennan. A seat-of-the- pants approach to international relations, even one with its share of ! short-term successes, will not preserve American leadership...
...military-industrial complex, who feared that John F. Kennedy '40 would wind down Vietnam and the Cold War and thus put them all out to pasture. This theory is based on nothing more than the say-so of a mysterious character who identifies himself only as "X" (George Kennan, maybe?) and claims to have been involved in running U.S. covert operations. At this point, we wind up, as Stone's protagonist, Jim Garrison, says in the film, "beyond the looking glass...
...taken hold in the new Soviet Union. There are republic leaders, legitimately elected mayors, legislators, independent journalists. The society is too various and too well educated for rulers to control in the old Stalinist way. Russians are not, as Marx called them, "rude Asiatics." Blair Ruble, director of the Kennan Institute of Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center, has observed, "There has been a general trend throughout the postwar period toward increasing education, urbanization and professionalization of the labor force. Those trends bring with them different attitudes toward authority and a greater desire to control one's destiny...