John Lewis Gaddis Quote
The alternative Kennan described as the particularized approach. It was skeptical of any scheme for compressing international affairs into legalist concepts. It holds that the content is more important than the form, and will force its way through any formal structure which is placed upon it. It considers that the thirst for power is still dominant among so many peoples that it cannot be assuaged or controlled by anything but counter-force. Particularism would not reject the idea of joining with other governments to preserve world order, but to be effective such alliances would have to be based upon real community of interest and outlook, which is to be found only among limited groups of governments, and not upon the abstract formalism of universal international law or international organization.
The alternative Kennan described as the particularized approach. It was skeptical of any scheme for compressing international affairs into legalist concepts. It holds that the content is more important than the form, and will force its way through any formal structure which is placed upon it. It considers that the thirst for power is still dominant among so many peoples that it cannot be assuaged or controlled by anything but counter-force. Particularism would not reject the idea of joining with other governments to preserve world order, but to be effective such alliances would have to be based upon real community of interest and outlook, which is to be found only among limited groups of governments, and not upon the abstract formalism of universal international law or international organization.
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