panegyric
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(noun) a eulogistic oration or writing / (noun) formal or elaborate praise
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This is the moment when panegyrics to ‘American empire’ were much in vogue.
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This is the moment when panegyrics to ‘American empire’ were much in vogue.
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serried
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(adjective) crowded or pressed together; compact / (adjective) marked by ridges; serrate / (verb) to press together especially in ranks / (verb) to crowd together
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Reagan was in truth always a dove, refusing all large-scale interventions and then eagerly seizing on the opportunity to embrace Gorbachev, all against the serried force of his own neo-con supporters.
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Reagan was in truth always a dove, refusing all large-scale interventions and then eagerly seizing on the opportunity to embrace Gorbachev, all against the serried force of his own neo-con supporters.
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Long Telegram
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an 8,000-word telegram from George Kennan, an American official in the Moscow embassy, responding to a request from the State Department for an analysis of the Soviet position; Feb 1946.
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The Long Telegram (just as the later X-Article) is ‘rejectionist’ through and through. It was precisely this aspect that made it so useful. The Soviet regime became an unchangeable essence of total, destructive, expansionist power, a state with which no relations of traditional diplomacy were possible.
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The Long Telegram (just as the later X-Article) is ‘rejectionist’ through and through. It was precisely this aspect that made it so useful. The Soviet regime became an unchangeable essence of total, destructive, expansionist power, a state with which no relations of traditional diplomacy were possible.
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tendentious
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(adjective) marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view; biased
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This had always been Kennan’s tendential position. It now became the official US position.
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This had always been Kennan’s tendential position. It now became the official US position.
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Truman Doctrine
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an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War; announced March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when Truman pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey
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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.
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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.
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trammeled
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(verb) to catch or hold in or as if in a net; enmesh / (verb) to prevent or impede the free play of; confine
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the presidency commands and acts in virtually untrammelled ways
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the presidency commands and acts in virtually untrammelled ways
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