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...nation is "its capacity to maintain some kind of autonomy-political and economic-against its environment." The most sensible test of a nation's viability would seem to be economic sufficiency: the ability to support its people without massive outside aid. Such is not the case nowadays. Many statesmen and political scientists believe, in fact, that the whole idea of a "viable nation" is a 19th century concept that is no longer applicable. "Logic and nationalism rarely commingle," says University of Chicago's William Polk. "Nations don't go out of business in the 20th century just...
Call to Prague. The President and his advisers were aware that no matter when the bombing was resumed, there would be howls of protest from an assortment of students and statesmen, professors and preachers. Last May, Johnson was more criticized than cheered for ordering a pause in the bombing and ending it after only five days. Similarly, he was faulted last week because he was considering ending the latest pause after only "a brief, one-month trial." There would undoubtedly be complaints if he ended the pause after six months. Said one Columbia University scholar: "The more...
...Abubakar himself was widely respected as a man who sought to bring the feuding regions together. He was also one of the continent's leading moderate statesmen, opposed equally to colonialism and to Kwame Nkrumah's brash brand of African nationalism. But many of the men in his government, especially the northerners, ran roughshod. The government was widely suspected of tampering with the 1963 census figures to ensure northern control in the federal parliament. In 1962, it jailed Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the anti-north Premier of the Western Region, and installed its own man, Chief Akintola...
Swift's insight still applies-246 years later-as few statesmen understand bet ter than the Group of Ten, a blue-ribbon panel of finance ministers and central-bank governors from Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden and the U.S. The group will shortly meet again in Paris, with its sights set on reaching a compromise agreement by March...
Traditional diplomacy in the post-nuclear age had degenerated into the "diplomacy of negotiations," which merely arranged a settlement once the issue had been decided. Before the last war, European statesmen used diplomacy as a tactical weapon for forming or destroying alliances in the backrooms of national capitals. But in the present-day world, where two super-powers can obliterate each other without external help, alliances become less crucial and such diplomacy has largely disappeared...