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that sits better with the theoretical impulses worked through here from cultural studies and Habermasian ideas

These are tendentious stabs at critique, designed to back up Short’s notion of a drip-drip-drip effect of colonial inculcation, and they are weak ones.

the presidency commands and acts in virtually untrammelled ways

The universalism of the Truman Doctrine in March 1947 was thus not a mistake or a momentary lapse of judgement. It was essential for the whole operation.

This had always been Kennan’s tendential position. It now became the official US position.