A breakfast for Bonaparte : U.S. national security interests from the Heights of Abraham to the nuclear age /
Despite or perhaps because of what he has seen at negotiation tables and diplomatic exchanges, Rostow writes with no bias other than to promote the goal of relative peace as attainable and reasonable. That goal may become the more attainable, he feels, if more and more nations would come to see it a...
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Washington, D.C. :
National Defense University Press : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.,
©1993
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| Summary: | Despite or perhaps because of what he has seen at negotiation tables and diplomatic exchanges, Rostow writes with no bias other than to promote the goal of relative peace as attainable and reasonable. That goal may become the more attainable, he feels, if more and more nations would come to see it as reasonable. In this book written from his unique perspective and rooted in this nation's diplomatic history, Rostow justifies mankind's aspirations for improvement as rational, therefore the proper pursuit of governments. An optimistic rationalist, Professor Rostow suggests that both the inertia and the momentum of history makes it impossible, and probably dangerous as well, to expect or even to seek perfect peace. But a prudent degree of social continuity does not condemn mankind to live forever in a state of unmitigated anarchy. - Publisher |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 507 pages ; 23 cm Available online via the Internet |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-485) and index |
| ISBN: | 0160359694 9780160359699 |