Accidental Encounters With History

Through a linked series of highly personal essays on foreign affairs and the world scene, Lincoln Bloomfield draws on his extraordinary career during the past half century.

Preface

ix

A Brief Bio-Chronology

1

(169)

1 BUREAUCRACY I: 1941-71

5

(21)

Dreams—and Nightmares—of Public Service

2 BUREAUCRACY II: 1953-57

26

(14)

The Genetically-Engineered Secretary of State

3 BUREAUCRACY III: 1979-80

40

(11)

The Atmosphere Gets Rarified

4 BUREAUCRACY IV: 1945-2005

51

(8)

The Triangular Foreign Policy Machine

5 COLD WAR SCHOLAR I: 1957-70

59

(14)

The Leaning 7bwer of Ivory

6 COLD WAR SCHOLAR II: 1958-71

73

(19)

Playing Games With Foreign Policy

7 THE REAL WORLD I: 1970-89

92

(29)

The Soviet Union From Tyranny To Turmoil

8 THE REAL WORLD II: 1976

121

(19)

The Middle East: Kings, Bombs, and Touch Football

9 THE REAL WORLD III: 1961-93

140

(30)

The Rest of the Map

10 LESSONS I

170

(16)

Can Foreign Policy Ever Be Rational?

11 LESSONS II

186

(33)

My Moderate Utopia

INDEX

219

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