Nerd Analysis: 3 Historical Cases of Appeasement

A glance back at history and at one historian's famous articulation of foreign policy's biggest pitfall: 

The worst enabler of appeasement, however, has been what historian Robert Conquest called foreign policy’s greatest danger: the failure of imagination that causes us, as Conquest wrote, "to project our ideas of common sense or natural motivation onto the products of totally different cultures," and thus to "frame policies based on illusions."

(Also, Robert Conquest wins, hands down, the contest for Best Name Ever Borne By a Historian.)