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In his biography of Secretary of State Dean Acheson, James Chace points out that when he was not elaborating the plans of the future NATO, Acheson liked to build wooden furniture. Of cabinet-making, the secretary of state once said: “The great thing about this hobby is that when I have finished a table or a chair and I put it down, it either stands or falls. It’s not like foreign policy, you don’t have to wait for twenty years to see whether it works.”1
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James Chace, Acheson: The Secretary of State that Created the American World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998, p. 142.
See Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1999, for an exposition of the link between democratic institutions and economic development.
See John Gerard Ruggie, Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalization. London: Routledge, 1998, p. 223.
Edward Luck, Mixed Messages: American Politics and International Organization, 1919–1999. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999, p. 3.
Steven Kull and I. M. Destler, Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999.
John Gerard Ruggie, Multilateralism Matters: The Theory and Practice of an Institutional Forum. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
See Ian Hurd, “Legitimacy and Authority in International Politics,” in International Organization, 53, no. 2 (spring 1999), p. 381 and subsequent pages for several points made here. The italics are Hurd’s.
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Tesner, S., Kell, G. (2000). Conclusion. In: The United Nations and Business. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62812-4_5
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