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...In 1950, North Korea misread the US secretary of state, Dean Acheson, when he omitted South Korea from a map of America’s “defensive perimeter” in Asia....
...Yet Harry Truman, Dean Acheson and George Marshall built after 1945 the most powerful alliance system the world has ever seen....
...I’m intrigued by the possibility that Blinken represents Democrats’ return to the gospel of liberal internationalism, where Acheson remains the high priest....
...Four years later, Robert Zoellick, deputy secretary of state in the George W Bush administration, urged China to become a “responsible stakeholder” in that system....
...“It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world,” wrote Robert Kagan on the eve of the Iraq war....
...Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet and Paul-Henri Spaak are generally counted among the EU’s founding fathers. Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F Kennedy were also present at the creation....
...His world is about money not values: America the selfish superpower, as Robert Kagan has described it....
...The web of alliances were the visionary product of US secretaries of state Dean Acheson and later James Baker after the fall of the Soviet Union, and with respect to Europe, the vision of Robert Schuman,...
...“We forget how unnatural the US-created liberal world order always was,” says Robert Kagan, a trenchant conservative critic of Trump....
...“I think we are in very dangerous waters,” says Robert Zoellick, the former World Bank president and US trade representative....
...“There is still a desire in some parts of Europe for guarantees,” says Stephen Acheson, executive director at Standard Life Investments....
...This echoes the sketch offered by Robert Gates, who was Mr Panetta’s predecessor at the Pentagon, and whose memoir, Duty, came out in January....
...Betty has died now but help comes from young Robert whom Acheson taught and trained from a nearby village....
...This is an edited version of a speech on “The Future of US-India Relations” delivered by Robert D....
...Walter Scott and Robert Burns are ignored, though both were Unionists, powerful voices for a dual not a single identity....
...It is what makes the US, in Bill Clinton’s words, the “indispensable nation”, or as Dean Acheson colourfully put it six decades ago, “the locomotive at the head of mankind”....
...But even Ronald Reagan, the apotheosis of American globalism, had been a Truman-Acheson follower in the 1940s....
...When Democrats took back the White House in 1961, many of the Rand thinkers went to Washington as assistants to Robert McNamara in the defence department....
...Lucy Wortham James grew up in the west but moved to New York after her mother died to be educated by her uncle, Robert Graham Dun, founder of Dun & Bradstreet....
...One former veteran of Bill Clinton’s state department describes Ms Rice as the most powerful holder of the office since Dean Acheson....
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