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New Uses for the UN

We Can Pursue Concrete Goals and Still Serve the Cause of Idealism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

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The immediate day-to-day foreign policy decisions which are facing us are on issues that are largely of other people's making. Beyond them there is another level where we might move ahead and try to give greater force to our ideas and to our ideals. It is here that we should be looking for action that will connect with our long-range objectives. The path here, as I see it, is to try to develop certain common interests, which may start out on a limited basis but can ultimately develop into worldwide interests.

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1959

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