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Another question many faculty members are asking concerns the proper role of an MIT president in leading MIT into a post-Cold...
...deal with. It is a silly idea but a telling one, for it underscores the dilemma facing all Western foreign-policy thinkers * and doers, starting with George Bush: the fading of the cold war in and of itself does not provide a road map or a compass for the post-cold...
...Polish Solidarity leader, and the world, may have to wait considerably longer for any clear signal about what kind of post-cold war Europe the U.S. envisions, and what it may do to help create one. The progressive dissolution of the onetime Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe, symbolized by the opening of the Berlin Wall, raises the possibility of a historic turn toward peace and cooperation -- but also the danger of churning instability. So the questions are piling up: What can the West do to strengthen the democratic movements in Poland, Hungary and East Germany? What sort of relationship...
...impossible by the cold war. In the absence of intractable ideological conflict between the U.S. and the Soviets, internationalism would no longer be a hopelessly utopian idea. (In fact, even during the cold war, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union found a temporary convergence of interests, they have been able jointly to control regional conflicts, such as Sinai, 1956, for example.) The Security Council could try to manage the world as a committee of the great powers. But any great power condominium needs unanimity to work. And that might still prove elusive in a post-cold war world...
...soon be among the most important. More pressing now is the question of how to get to that post-Soviet world, how best to encourage either the reform or the further decline of the Soviet Union. However, since Gorbachev is certainly right that the Soviet Union faces only one of these two alternatives, and since either alternative will radically alter the international environment, the U.S. had best start thinking what it proposes to do in a post-cold war world. The outlines of the coming debate are clear. Once the election is over, the debate might actually begin...