Word: rostow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aron with singular clarity,) "they plead the inevitable: it would be vain, in the modern world, to oppose the liberation of the colored races...If we assume that they are right, the Americans should not be astonished that the French are not easily convinced." It is easier, as W.W. Rostow has noted, to colonize than to pull out of the colonies...
...President must, as W. W. Rostow has said, learn to view the Russians both as rivals and as fellow citizens of the planet; he must enter arms control negotiations not already convinced of their futility, but rather convinced of their necessity. He must see the United Nations not as a world debating society, but as a useful instrument for resolution of conflict. He must realize, and make the American people accept, the fact that the leaders of new nations can in good conscience find little profit in military alliance on either side of the cold war; he must not view...
...Rostow Reconsidered...
Much of the current non-technical literature of economic development suffers from the same fault: inability to impress clarity on a very confused situation. Some writers, like W. W. Rostow of M.I.T., have tried to be too clear. In his Stages of Economic Growth, Rostow attempts to provide a useful framework by dividing all societies into five stages of development: traditional societies, the preconditions for take-off, the take-off, maturity, and the age of high-mass consumption. If nations such as Peru and Pakistan can fulfill the right pre-conditions, Rostow says, by allocating resources to the right sectors...
...enough, because the blind giving of funds may subvert economies rather than develop them; self-interest--looking at the poor third of the world as an economic battle-field in a giant bipolar struggle--may be "competing with the Communists on their own terms." The rationale of competition, as Rostow has pointed out, is not a necessary one. The recent rapid diffusion of military power leads one to suspect that it will not be long before the influence of these countries will become a heavy one indeed, and the traces of bipolarity remaining from the immediate postwar days will disappear...