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...each other in fervor, have long agreed on one thing: he is brilliant at analyzing national interests and balances of power. If only he would step back from his corporate consulting and fashion-set socializing, they say, he might produce the grand tome that secures his place alongside George Kennan among the great diplomatic thinkers of our century...
...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...