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IN NO FOREIGN POLICY ARENA WAS PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN'S PERSONAL INFLUENCE MORE PRONOUNCED THAN IN POLICY TOWARD THE SOVIET REGIME, AND IN NO OTHER AREA WAS HIS JUDGMENT SO ROUNDLY CRITICIZED BY "EXPERTS." HOWEVER, REAGAN WAS WILLING TO STICK WITH HIS POLICIES IN THE FACE OF DETERMINED OPPOSITION FROM POWERFUL OPPONENTS, AND HIS POLICIES SUCCEEDED. BY THIS STANDARD, HE MUST BE REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PRESIDENTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, PARTICULARLY IN FOREIGN POLICY.

Ernest Gellner discusses some of the major themes raised by the authors of the articles in this special collection (see abstracts of related articles). He argues that those critics who find his account of nationalism too instrumental miss his palpable regard for the emotive aspects of this phenomenon. Gellner defends, on empirical grounds, his use of the theory of segmentation in his ethnographic work on the Berbers. The religious & political organization of Islam is discussed. Gellner defends his macrosociology of the modern world & the theory of historical stages on which it is predicated. Gellner asserts his commitment to scientific method & the open society, while maintaining his criticism of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Marx, & Karl Popper. 13 References. H. von Rautenfeld