Vera Micheles Dean

Overview

Vera Micheles Dean born Petrograd, Russia March 29, 1903 (d. 1972). Russian-American political scientist and policy specialist. Foreign Policy Association research director, 1928-1961; adviser to American delegation to UN and UNRRA. Early advocate of rapprochement with USSR; anti-imperialist.

Quotations

“[Nuclear war] deprives the great powers of the advantage they have had for centuries over the non-western peoples—the advantage of superior weapons—and gives the weaker underdeveloped nations the opportunity to use the weapon Gandhi made his own—the weapon of non-violent moral suasion.” (The Nature of-the Non-Western World, 1957, p. 258)