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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Walter Laqueur

Titel

U.S.-Soviet Relations

Ist Teil von

• Foreign Affairs, 1983

Erscheinungsjahr

1983

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• What is bewildering is the conviction--and it is becoming more and more general--that in all the perils that confront us, the direction of affairs is given over to a way of thinking that has no longer any understanding of itself. It is like being in a carriage, descending an increasingly precipitous slope, and suddenly realizing that there is no coachman on the box." The lines were written in 1854 by Fyodor Tiutchev, poet and diplomat, in a letter to his wife. The image is frightening and many seem to have experienced similar fears as the year 1983 drew to a close.