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...this qualification as it may, it does not alter the fact that the Center's early work lent objective support to U. S. policy goals. Of the 15 Fellows who visited the Center each year, just less than half were American officials, and the rest were almost exclusively from Britain, France, West Germany, South Korea, Japan, and other nations vital to the success of the Free World Rim Strategy. They had come here to study concrete situations, relevant theories, and game strategies; their purpose was to improve the efficacy of their governments, governments friendly to American-influence and dependent...
What can it have meant, in 1960, for the Ambassador from South Korea to the United States (who had previously served as chairman of the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff) and a Colonel with the U. S. Military Assistance Advisory Group in Vietnam, to meet in weekly Center seminars to discuss "political-military relations"? for an assistant secretary in the British Board of Trade to meet with a deputy chief for Economic Research in the American CIA and discuss "problems of economic development"? for an Eastern European specialist in the Department of State and the chief of the Soviet...
This fear was part of the rationale for also seeking to prevent other nations from becoming nuclear powers; but behind that rationale was the more basic theorem that the possession of atomic weapons, even in their nonuse, was an incalculable political asset. In a proliferating world community, the U. S. and the Soviet Union would have grown progressively less powerful and influential; but if nuclear weapons could be kept out of everyone else's hands, the two would continue to flourish. The new application of the balance of power concept was indeed conceived, as Schelling pointed out, in terms...
...Chairman of the Government Department at Harvard. He is a Fellow of the Center for International Affairs. He is a member of a group called the Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group, a subdivision of the Agency for International Development. He has gone to Vietnam as a consultant to the U. S. government. And most recently he has been in Malaysia, advising the Malaysian government on how to cope with the internal problems that it faces. Huntington is more than a minor figure. His articles are published in the journals of the U. S. foreign policy elite, such as Foreign Affairs...
...paper by Huntington is thus worthy of attention, interesting for what it might point out about trends within American political science and within the foreign policy-making establishment. The paper, entitled "Getting Ready for Political Competition in South Vietnam," is a discussion of the political means available to the U. S. for preventing NLF dominance. In it Huntington examines various political settlements and goes on to investigate specific constitutional and electoral formulas...