An alternative to NATO expansion
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 52, Heft 2, S. 342-365
ISSN: 0020-7020
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In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 52, Heft 2, S. 342-365
ISSN: 0020-7020
In: The journal of conflict studies: journal of the Centre for Conflict Studies, University of New Brunswick, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 156-158
ISSN: 1198-8614
In: The journal of Slavic military studies, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 786-799
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In: The journal of Slavic military studies, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 786-799
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In: Problems of post-communism, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 54-61
ISSN: 1557-783X
In: The bulletin of the atomic scientists: a magazine of science and public affairs, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 10
ISSN: 0096-3402, 0096-5243, 0742-3829
In: Bulletin of the atomic scientists, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 10-10
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In: International studies quarterly: the journal of the International Studies Association, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 321-325
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In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 393-403
ISSN: 1465-3923
Getting a fix on Estonians' state of mind was difficult in the years before and after September 1991. The runup and aftermath of independence produced what an observer inEstonian Lifecalled a "psychic rollercoaster"—euphoric hopes, long periods of boredom, and moments of sheer terror as Soviet agents struck hard at Baltic independence. Earlier years of collective obedience training had produced the effect of psychic numbing. In the 1990s Estonians dared to think and feel.
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 687-719
ISSN: 2052-465X
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 9-24
ISSN: 1465-3923
Empire depends not only upon the strength of the center but upon compliant behavior in the periphery, and the nature of interactions between center and periphery. Each of these three variables is changing rapidly in the former Soviet empire.
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 687-719
ISSN: 0020-7020
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 67-78
ISSN: 1465-3923
Walter C. Clemens, Jr. Negotiating a New Life: Burdens of Empire and Independence—the Case of the BalticsThe Soviet Union disappeared in 1991 but, dying, gave birth to many new shoots of life, each struggling to survive and flourish despite great difficulties. Devolution of empire rarely proceeds without pain; it often causes, or results from, great violence. The first year of independent life for the successor states of the USSR witnessed much less violence than attended the demise of other great empires in this century. None had to fight for liberation as did Algeria and Angola. The fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia does not approach the violence seen in the breakup of India, the attempted secessions of Katanga and Biafra, or the Croatian-Serbian war.
In: Worldview, Band 28, Heft 6, S. 26-27
In: Worldview, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 7-10
Americans can be thankful for their many wise and articulate analysts in such places as the Brookings Institution and Time's Washington bureau, as well as in the State Department and other branches of the U.S. Government. Leon V. Sigal, for example, was a visiting scholar at' Brookings when he wrote Nuclear Forces in Europe. His already wide reading knowledge had been enriched by experience as assistant director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in 1970-80 and by discussions with others at Brookings (for instance, Raymond L. Garthoff, former executive secretary of the SALT I delegation). Strobe Talbott has written two previous books on arms control and foreign policy while working in Washington as Time's diplomatic correspondent. Trained at Yale and Oxford, he has served also in the London and Moscow offices of Time. Talbott has read widely and seems to have easy access to many U.S. policymakers on arms control. Sigal and Talbott display not only a powerful mastery of the relevant facts, but also an ability to present complexities with elegant clarity. They have additional gifts of empathy, wisdom, and cautious realism concerning what can and should be done about arms limitation.