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and dangerously susceptible" (p. 80).
Very much concerned about the emotional side of the process of restructuring for the small
players Kennan was no less concerned about the restructuring impact on big powers especially
in view of the "cult of the minorities" in world politics.
Despite his insistent "lobbying" of the idea of regional integration presented as the answer to
practically all challenges it is hard to pass over in silence his obvious perspicacity and the wide
scope of his political ideas. He detected and discussed in detail not only the most urgent but
also still vague problems of international interaction. Having identified the trends of world
processes associated with ethnicity, he not only arrived at correct forecasts related to the degrees
to which the international structure would be needed and efficient; he left us a splendid analysis
of future crises and political dead ends inevitable if and when we relied on these structures to
settle acute international problems.
Электронное приложение к журналу «Международная жизнь»