I.s:s, interni. fra crisis test restraint. 16)- relations. interest.

The dialogues of the super-powers, the hopes of detente, however exaggerated, in Europe, the diffusion of power to the Far East," the cre'ation of 80 new nations in the Third World, and the resurgence of nationalism in areas like the Communist bloc or western Europe, from which it was supposed to have .been banished, have produced a need for techniques of hmv to live and let live between nations t. [...] Imposed on the great powers or not, it is a step forward, a sign not so much of the "impotence" of the great powers as of the development of a quasi-confederal world in the shadow of the Bomb. [...] At that stage, one will be .very near to a revival of the clas.sic concept of powers of the old European system, with the difference that the stage will be the world and the potential power at the command of the partners out of all proportion to anything known up to 1945. [...] The relations, for instance, of the United States and Japan, could be affected as much, or more, by the resistance of Japan to the establishment on Japanese soil of American companies and of America to the entry of Japanese goods into the United States as by specifically strategic issues such as the security treaty. [...] In fact, although the willingness of countries to face the social problems of the world of rich and poor and to co-operate to deal with the new problems of the international economy has lately been declining, the need is greater than it ever was.