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Commitment to Responsibility

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GeigerTheodore, The Conflicted Relationship: The West and the Transformation of Asia, Africa and Latin America, The Atlantic Policy Series, published for the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1967, xiv, 303 pp. $7.95.
KaplanJacob J., The Challenge of Foreign Aid: Policies, Problems, and Possibilities, New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1967, 405 pp. $8.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

C. P. Kindleberger
C. P. Kindleberger
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Massachusetts Institute
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In reading the two books under review, I was reminded of Senator Fulbright's book The Arrogance of Power—or at least of the title. Each of these two works, also dealing with the relationships of the United States to the less developed world, but each making a different point, can be summed up in a similar substantive phrase: Geiger's thesis would be “The Humility of Ignorance”; Kaplan's, “Commitment to Responsibility.”

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World Politics , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , January 1968 , pp. 357 - 367
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1968

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1 (New York 1967).

2 Millikan, Max F. and Rostow, W. W., A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign Policy (New York 1957)Google Scholar.