“Peace Offensive” by Gorbachev

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WASHINGTON -Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, set­ ting foot for the first tim e on American soil Monday, said he hopes to hear “ new words” about prospects for cutting long-range strategic weapons at his White House sum m it this week with President Reagan. The Reagan adm inistration rolled out the red carpet for Gorbachev and his wife Raisa, and in a welcoming statem ent the Soviet leader wish...

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research

Offensive alliances in graphs

A set S is an offensive alliance if for every vertex v in its boundary N(S)−S it holds that the majority of vertices in v’s closed neighbourhood are in S. The offensive alliance number is the minimum cardinality of an offensive alliance. In this paper we explore the bounds on the offensive alliance and the strong offensive alliance numbers (where a strict majority is required). In particular, w...

Reasoning about ignorance: a note on the Bush-Gorbachev problem

The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis.

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994. Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper investigates an alternative explanation: the demise of the 1985-1988 Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign. Using archival sources to build a new ...