Arguably, if there was a “Cold War for Dummies” book that were to ever come out, or if there were a “Cold War 101” class to teach in college, it would have just one page in it or one lecture on it and with one concept and PowerPoint on it: the balance of power. If … Continue reading Ninth Note to “Stockholm Syndrome”
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Tenth Note to “The Nixon Doctrine”
Moreover, the final and objective arbiter and judge between East and West is the mysterious and unexplainable balance of power. And what we find is that energy and dynamism is now very much on the side of the East as opposed to the West. How the West adapts and adjusts to this basic social reality … Continue reading Tenth Note to “The Nixon Doctrine”
Footnote to the post titled “Just-Surmounted Colonial Tutelage”
Interestingly, and as Kissinger highlighted, China sees the management of "barbarians" and the fostering of deference and the affirmation of its cultural superiority as its key aims and interests in the international system. There is a hierarchy in the world system, and China sits atop of it. That is simply the way things are, for … Continue reading Footnote to the post titled “Just-Surmounted Colonial Tutelage”
Adam A. Azim 