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American Diplomatic Leadership in the West

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Our foreign policy over the past ten years has been no success: Communist expansion has not been halted, the non-Communist world is not united, and peace is no closer. Why? We are ill prepared for world leader ship by our ignorance of geography, languages, and history, that is, by a parochial world view borne out of indifference produced by a feeling of impotence and frustration. Having power we have little notion of how to use it. We moralize too much, confuse legalism with morality, and often exhibit self-righteousness obnoxious to other peoples. Our leaders, unwilling to risk unpopularity by adopt ing a flexible and imaginative foreign policy, have become prisoners of a public state of mind, created largely by their own propaganda.—Ed.

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  • James P. Warburg, 1957. "American Diplomatic Leadership in the West," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 312(1), pages 127-136, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:312:y:1957:i:1:p:127-136
    DOI: 10.1177/000271625731200116
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