Word: vision
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...happened, Kennan's vision of a politically neutral or centrist "Mittel Europa" was not fulfilled in the post-Hiroshima world, and the fate of the continent has remained in thrall to U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals. While the U.S. did not attempt to dominate Europe economically either during or after the Marshall Plan, our military position on the continent has influenced all aspects of Western relations, including economic agreements. Misuse of American strategic power in the region threatens to undermine the Western alliance which Marshall helped to create...
...American failure to analyze Marshall's vision goes beyond economic and political miscalculation. How much of the prestige that attaches to the Marshall Plan is really a misunderstanding of its genesis and intent? The Plan itself provided only a broad sketch; among its most important guiding principles was pluralism, a willingness to let the Europeans experiment with both private enterprise and socialism in their recovery efforts. It was the Plan's lack of ideological rigidity that made it so profoundly useful...
Scholars say that post-war Europe was a special case, far different from Third World regions which are the commonly targeted areas for modern versions of Marshall's vision. To Hoffman the plan was aimed at rebuilding the West, "not laying the ground work for social and economic justice" in Third World nations...
Many say that it is a desire to restore his family name that has prompted the younger von Weizsacker to present such a uniquely honest, and candid, vision for modern Germany. And in doing so he has gained widespread popularity among Germans, serving especially as the conscience of younger Germans, who have shown an instinct to rile at being reminded of their Nazi past...
...attributes the Harvard department's success to high standards and wide vision of history. "We collectively have a concept of history that is rather broader than others which permits us to deal with analogies that move across time and space," she says...