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Germany, Japan, and the False Glare of War |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Daniel Hamilton and James Clad |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,243 Words, 13,915 Characters |
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The Persian Gulf War has sharpened American perceptions of friend and foe alike, clarifying underlying realities of power and exposing divergent assumptions about those supposed pillars of a new world order--the United States, Germany, and Japan.
Those assumptions, which concern the respective roles and responsibilities of the world's most influential countries, matter far more in the longer term than an expeditionary war in the Middle East, no matter how successful. And we stand a good chance of getting these key relationships right if we move as decisively now as we did in the Gulf to burn away the disorienting fog surrounding notions of a "new world order" ever since the collapse of the Cold War.
Yet judging from American reaction to Germany and Japan both during and since the...
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... be the trilateral fulcrum. Yet such a position must take account of America's limitations as well as its strengths. It would be sadly ironic if, in our haste and concern about competitiveness (and if in pique over slow-moving allies), we were to loosen our bonds with Germany and Japan just when the potential for enhancing America's position in the post-Cold War world has never been higher. vbcrlf
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