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45. Krehm, Democracies and Tyrannies, 121.
46. LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, 78f. On the same phenomenon with
regard to petroleum policy, see TNCW, and with regard to US policy in
Asia, At War with Asia, chapter 1. More generally, see Kolko, Main
Currents; Stephen Krasner, Defending the National Interest (Princeton,
1978).
47. Kolko, Politics of War, 471.
48. William Roger Louis, Imperialism at Bay (Oxford, 1978), 481.
49. This and what follows is drawn from an illuminating study by Melvyn
Leffler, “The American Conception of National Security and the
Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945-48,” AHR Forum, American Historical
Review, April 1984.
50. Kolko, Politics of War.
51. Samuel Huntington, in M. J. Crozier, S. P. Huntington and J. Watanuki,
The Crisis of Democracy (NYU, 1975), report of the Trilateral
Commission. On this commission, see Holly Sklar, ed. Trilateralism
(South End, 1980) and TNCW.
52. Shoup and Minter, Imperial Brain Trust; see TNCW for a brief review.
See Robert Schulzinger, The Wise Men of Foreign Affairs (Columbia,
1984), a much more superficial conventional history that omits the
crucial material Shoup and Minter discuss while citing the “official
rebuttal” by William Bundy, which condemned them for “selectivity”
(Foreign Affairs, October, 1977). Both Bundy and Shulzinger dismiss the
Shoup and Minter study without analysis as a paranoid vision
comparable to that of the Far Right. Their important study was otherwise
ignored. Standard histories also ignore Kennan’s positions cited here, as
do his memoirs. On the wartime and early postwar period, see especially
Kolko, Politics of War, Gabriel and Joyce Kolko, The Limits of Power
(Harper & Row, 1972), two seminal contributions to a large literature.
53. See For Reasons of State, chapter 1, V, for references and discussion.
54. James Chace, “How ‘Moral’ Can We Get,” NYT magazine, May 22,
1977.
55. See TNCW, chapter 2.