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...reflect the complexity and diversity of international society. It has to be responsible to the needs and aspirations of the poor and suppressed who yearn for the same freedoms that we enjoy and strive to protect. If we reduce complexity and diversity to the simple question of Soviet-American competition, international relations will harden and the dangers of confrontation will increase. Considerable pessimism can be felt before the economic summit. Mounting economic problems and increasing unemployment are real threats to the atmosphere and to cooperation...
...Soviet-American relations, there is a sense that American policy has recently been reactive to Moscow initiatives. Only three months after your talk with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, when you declared that Poland cast a long and dark shadow over East-West relations, there is talk about a summit with President Leonid Brezhnev and a rush to engage in arms-control talks...
...that the book gives short shrift to Soviet-American military balance and its political implications. Gandhi's strategy of passive resistance was effective against the British colonial rulers of India, but it is hardly applicable to the management of the Soviet challenge. Schell's position, like many others', seems to be that with the Soviet-American nuclear rivalry already at such grotesque levels of overkill, concepts of rough equivalence, equilibrium and stability lose all meaning. That proposition is highly debatable, yet Schell seems almost to take it for granted. While balance of power...
...worth recalling what Schell overlooks: "brinksmanship" was a feature of the Soviet-American contest in the '40s, '50s and early '60s, over Berlin (twice), Cuba and other trouble spots. That was back in the days when the U.S. had overwhelming nuclear superiority. Since the Soviets achieved nuclear parity with the U.S., and thus brought about the dilemma of true mutual deterrence that Schell describes so well, the two countries have tried to stay well back from the brink, despite the many points of tension between them. In short, the choice facing mankind may be less stark...
...escalation scenarios and counterforce strategies is familiar territory to Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who wrote a major segment of this week's cover package on the specter of nuclear war. Talbott covered the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, and subsequently turned his reportage into a 1979 book, Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT 11. His fascination with Soviet affairs and Soviet-American relations goes back to his first Russian-language studies at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn. A student of Russian literature at Yale, and then at Oxford, he worked as a 1969 summer trainee at TIME...