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Blowback chalmers5/9/2023 ![]() In other words, he was a man of the world who knew how the world worked. ![]() He was the an old Asian hand who had chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California-Berkeley from 1967 to 1972 and then served as president and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute. Johnson, who has died at age 79, was no liberal idealist. His 2000 book, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Macmillan), gave currency to the old espionage term-which referred to the violent, unintended consequences of covert (and sometimes not so covert) operations that are suffered even by superpowers such as the United States-and became an essential text for those who sought to explain the attacks and to forge sounder and more responsible foreign policies for the furture. ![]()
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