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Article: Poor relations; America and the third world; America and the third world.(Books and Arts)(Review)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2001
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THE IMPERIAL MANTLE: THE UNITED STATES, DECOLONIZATION, AND THE THIRD WORLD.
WHY does the United States have such troubled relations with so much of the third world? It is a good question, seldom asked by those who make American foreign policy, and even more seldom answered. In this book David Newsom, after a lifetime spent in the service of his country as ambassador to Libya, Indonesia and the Philippines, and later as under-secretary and assistant secretary of state, tries to make amends. He rightly points out that, if America is to find solutions to many of its foreign-policy problems, it will have to get to grips with the emotions, attitudes and disorder of ...