5/29/2023 0 Comments Political Risk by Condoleezza Rice![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually, Korbel founded the school's Graduate School of International Studies, and by the time he died in 1977, he left behind a legacy that spawned two generations of top diplomats and leaders. He landed in Colorado, where the University of Denver offered him a teaching post. He was a refugee from his native Czechoslovakia twice: first, as a young diplomat working for the government-in-exile in London while his beloved country was occupied by the Nazis, and then again after 1948 when Czechoslovakia became a Soviet satellite. But man for man (or rather, woman for woman), the less-well-known academic Josef Korbel has arguably had a more enduring and practical impact on the history of American policy. His students are, most certainly, influential today. That's one reason for the recent obsession with dead academics like Leo Strauss, a political philosopher who happened to educate - among others - president of the World Bank and former Bush official Paul Wolfowitz, writer Robert Kagan, academic Allan Bloom and journalist William Kristol.Īs a result, Strauss has been dubbed the "father" of the so-called neo-conservative movement. In today's politically polarized environment, polemicists seek out philosophical theories to explain and justify the behavior of contemporary leaders and thinkers. ![]()
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