The Situation Remains Fluid

I noted in these columns last winter [NR, Feb. 26] that “the world equilibrium ….has been thrown into critical instability.” Two developments of the last month, one of them a surprise to all observers and quite possibly to the participants, take a prominent place among what I then listed as “incidents [that] may be understood as attempts to break out of the bipolar power structure within which world politics has revolved since early in the 1950s.”

Burnham