Andrew H. Kydd Quotes
Mistrust and conflict form a self-reinforcing cycle in which the mistrust causes conflict that reinforces the mistrust
Andrew H. Kydd, Professor of Government at Harvard University, Trust and Mistrust in International Relations
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This was one of the most accurate foreign policy assessments ever made. The next year the first Arab-Israeli war began when the state of Israel came into being. See {624566} for another accurate prediction.
Right wing conservatives were not always in favor of large defense expenditures. Prior to WWII most were opposed to defense spending and they were the pacifists. Clark was one of the few that maintained this view after WWII.
Expressing distress that the British were involved in one war after another in the Middle East that she thought never would have occurred if Britain had a foreign policy instead of "Muddling Through". Bell was responsible for setting most of the borders and geographical distributions of peoples in the Middle East, She did the best she could without any strong policy to guide her. A Century later, the Middle Eastern nations were still fighting over those borders, but they remained essentially intact.
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Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat
