Word: tripolar
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...envisioned French leadership of a continental federation, with a reunited and disarmed Germany serving as a buffer between East and West. Britain would join with Canada and the U.S. in an allied but separate political coalition. Eastern European states would be wooed into the neutral continental center, so the tripolar division would stabilize the international system and serve as a buffer in any East-West confrontation...
Success, which William James called "the bitch goddess," has exerted a tripolar magnetic pull on most Americans. It is variously regarded with desire, fear and despair. The desire is to succeed. The fear is of failing to succeed. The despair is the feeling of emptiness, the loss of a rooted and perhaps better self after one has succeeded. The most distressing knowledge of all, of course, is to realize that you sought esteem in the eyes of others because you lacked it in your...
...this amounts to a subtle but important shift in the post-Viet Nam world. In Southeast Asia, an altered tripolar balance is forming. The U.S. clearly wants to maintain a strong presence in the Pacific. China will try to strengthen its position by creating diplomatic ties with the ASEAN countries, while paradoxically keeping up its verbal support for the leftist insurrections that have survived for decades in the region's remoter areas. Moscow, too, already has normal relations with most of Southeast Asia's countries and a small but growing trade with some; despite Peking's efforts...
...Tripolar Alignment. Ironically, the most important political item was not on the agenda and would probably not even be mentioned in the formal talks. Yet the summit might never have taken place except for China. In private, though, Brezhnev is almost certain to try to find out from Nixon whether there were any secret agreements made during his China trip. The President can honestly reassure his Soviet counterpart on that point. Even so, there is no doubt that the new relationship with China has given Washington an advantage in the tripolar alignment. Previously Moscow was the only power that talked...
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