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The story picks up again in the mid-1970s, in an atmosphere of détente that was not particularly favorable to concert diplomacy. Its source was in the crisis affecting the capitalist world, rather than in the mechanisms of détente. Oligarchy arose from the weakness of the leader and the uncertainties of the free-market economy, which naturally only concerned the Western Hemisphere. It fed on both the deadlocks and inability of economic multilateralism, which really included only one side of the bipolar world.
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© 2012 Bertrand Badie and Éditions La Découverte
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Badie, B. (2012). “Fireside Chats”. In: Diplomacy of Connivance. The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137006431_5
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