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Article: THE HARD-LINER HARVARD HISTORIAN RICHARD PIPES SHAPED THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S AGGRESSIVE APPROACH TO THE SOVIET UNION. HIS SUPPORT FOR CONFRONTATION OVER CONTAINMENT PREFIGURED THE BUSH FOREIGN POLICY OF TODAY.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 2, 2003
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OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, the Bush administration has inspired one
of the more stimulating scavenger hunts in recent memory - the search
for the Ur-theorist of its bold foreign policy initiatives. With each
new turn another name has emerged. "Regime change" gave us the
political philosopher Leo Strauss. The "shock and awe" campaign
brought forth the Cold War calculations of military strategist Albert
Wohlstetter. Hints of follow-up aggression against Syria and North
Korea had some consulting Trotsky's writings on "permanent
revolution."
A likelier candidate might be Richard Pipes, the eminent historian
of Russia who two decades ago interrupted a thriving career as a
Harvard professor to help ...