Title: Accidental encounters with history (and some lessons learned) /
Authors: Bloomfield, Lincoln P., 1920-2013.
Publisher: Hot House Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Bloomfield, Lincoln P.,; Bloomfield, Lincoln P.,; United States. Officials and employees Biography.; National Security Council (U.S.) Officials and employees Biography.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Biography.; World politics; Historians United States Biography; Political scientists United States Biography; United States Foreign relations; United States Foreign relations; United States Politics and government
Contents: Bureaucracy I, 1941-71 : dreams, and nightmares, of public service -- Bureaucracy II, 1953-57 : the genetically-engineered Secretary of State -- Bureaucracy III, 1979-80 : the atmosphere gets rarified -- Bureaucracy IV, 1945-2005 : the triangular foreign policy machine -- Cold War scholar I, 1957-70 : the leaning tower of ivory -- Cold War scholar II, 1958-71 : playing games with foreign policy -- The real world I, 1970-89 : the Soviet Union from tyranny to turmoil -- The real world II, 1976 : the Middle East : kings, bombs, and touch football -- The real world III, 1961-93 : the rest of the map -- Lessons I : can foreign policy ever be rational? -- Lessons II : my moderate utopia.