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The New Fellow-Traveling: In the present crisis, a sickening familiarity.(increased number of Islamist extremists)
Islamist fellow-traveling today has a different focus from the Soviet fellow-traveling that preceded it, but the cast of mind is the same. The common premise that Western society is responsible for the world's ills generates in certain intellectual circles guilt for the present as well as fear for what is to come. The conviction then develops that whatever "we" do must be wrong, and whatever "they" do is justified. Fellow-travelers in both cases come to apologize for those hostile to Western society, even to identify with them.
The Soviet Union invariably proclaimed that the goal of Communism was peace and the perfectibility of mankind. Evidence to the contrary ...
- Platinum markets eye superpowers. (Soviet Union, United States)
- Magazine article from: Futures (Cedar Falls, Iowa) Banfield, Eric-Charles October 1, 1991 700+ words
...eye superpowers Platinum markets are watching the Soviet Union and the United States. Prospects for slower Soviet platinum sales...to strikes in South Africa and possibly in the Soviet Union. But for now, he says, weak Japanese stock prices...
- The fine print and the four powers. (Soviet Union, United States, France, Great...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 18, 1989 700+ words
...been signed between the wartime allies--the Soviet Union, the United States, France and Britain--and defeated Germany...have been handed to Poland, other bits to the Soviet Union. West Germany has agreed that the borders around...
- While the going is good. (emigration from Soviet Union to United States)...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 10, 1990 700+ words
...emigrate from the Soviet Union to the United States, plucked at random...Azerbaijan. The Soviet Union is suffering from...are at work. The Soviet Union produces more highly...each year than the United States does. Many of them...
- Space: glasmarstroika. (Soviet Union and United States joint venture in space)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 28, 1988 700+ words
...to earth. The plan has obvious merits. The Soviet Union's unmanned space missions, unlike its manned...of joint venture since April 1987, when the United States and the Soviet Union renewed a space co-operation agreement that...
- China, the United States, and the Soviet Union: Tripolarity and Policymaking in...
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Dreyer, June Teufel September 1, 1994 700+ words
...China, the Soviet Union, and the United States. By contrast...when the Soviet Union was perceived...hands with the United States--and it...relations with the Soviet Union in April 1979...problems and the United States was not only...
- Economic competition and cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United...
- Magazine article from: Business Economics Carvounis, Chris C. Carvounis, Brinda Z. January 1, 1990 700+ words
...thought of the Soviet Union as irrelevant...their sale in the United States. As Mikhail...a revitalized Soviet Union eventually may...indicates that the Soviet Union will become a...third that of the United States.(2) In fact...
- Lost to the world. (the new but unstable relationship between the Soviet Union...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 30, 1989 700+ words
...cooing between the United States and the Soviet Union may mean a world...economic failure: the Soviet Union is broke. It cannot...Washington. The United States, too, is motivated...compared with the Soviet Union's. If it wanted...
- Strangled by red tape. (trade between the Soviet Union and the United States)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 24, 1990 700+ words
...do business in the Soviet Union have produced much...from Britain to the Soviet Union. The deal was passed...Council, says the United States is the only big western...energy projects in the Soviet Union, and the Byrd amendment...
Source: HighBeam Research, The New Fellow-Traveling: In the present crisis, a sickening...