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ニクソンの表すブレジネフが無邪気かつ短気らしく興味深い。
ソ連が、中国とアメリカの核の結びつきを恐れていたことがよく分かる。

Until the turn of the twentieth century,American foreign policy was basically quite simple: to fulfill the country’s manifest destiny, and to remain free of entanglements overseas.
The Monroe Doctrine went the next step by declaring that Europe must not become entangled in American affairs. And the Monroe’a idea of what constitutes American affairs, the whole Western Hemisphere, was expansive indeed.

Should America actively promote the spread of free institutions as a principal objective of its foreign policy? Or should it rely on the impact of its example?

Wilson’s principles held that peace depends on the spread of democracy, that states should be judged by the Sam ethical criteria as individuals, and that the national interest consisted of adhering to a universal system of law. To hardened veterans of diplomacy based on balance of power, his views seemed strange or hypocritical.
The benefit of neutrality as a bargaining tool.