At the beginning of the modern world, the idea of utopia was more of a theologically-based critique of politics than a political theory, even if it defined the organization of a perfect state with maniacal attention to detail. At the end of the modern world, in the 20th century, utopia became political.ut utopia can be thought of only when the relationship is reversed, when the real appears overloaded and offers no way out of war, violence, cupidity, exploitation, hunger and injustice. Faced with a reality which is overloaded in this way, we have to look for an elsewhere.
Portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Eisenhower Administrationâs decision to issue this doctrine was motivated in part by an increase in Arab hostility toward the West, and growing Soviet influence in Egypt and Syria following the Suez Crisis of 1956.he Eisenhower Administrationâs decision to issue this doctrine was motivated in part by an increase in Arab hostility toward the West, and growing Soviet influence in Egypt and Syria following the Suez Crisis of 1956.
This theory was first articulated as American policy by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954. However, the domino theory proved to be just a theory. Communism didn't spread around the world or through the region, and the U.S. didn't win the war-South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese forces.e was referencing the battle between French forces and the Vietminh (the communist forces of North Vietnam), and he began by explaining how economically important Vietnam was to the U.S. More importantly, however, was what Eisenhower called the 'falling domino' principle.