This paper addresses the role of US expert community in shaping nuclear risk reduction policy during Cold War. The authors examines two ways interaction between experts and authorities: direct (through participation various specialized committees commissions, preparing analytical reports, so on) through communication with civil society (publication studies, forming public opinion on weapons. pa...

Introduction NATO has 28 members and aspires to welcome new ones, by its own standards a measure of extraordinary success in the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet empire; on the surface it is as strong as it ever has been. Yet the Alliance remains haunted by the ghosts of the past, as the members from “new Europe” bring with them their experience of the Soviet boot and their fears fo...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation ("Russia") and former soviet satellite countries and republics of Central and Eastern Europe ("Soviet Bloc") have struggled with privatizing housing and establishing market-based residential mortgage systems. This thesis addresses the recent efforts of three former Soviet Bloc countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary and Polan...

Since the early 1990s, Cuba has experienced serious economic problems that resulted from the demise of the Soviet Union and the disappearance of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), the economic and financial system in which the island was inserted. At end of the 1980s, some 81% of Cuba’s external commercial relations were with the member countries of the CMEA. In 1989, Cuba expor...

1. The history of US–Indian relations 1.1 1947-1990: The Cold War era US–Indian economic relations were never insignificant following India's independence, but mutual understanding was lost during the Cold War system, resulting in suppressed progress in the bilateral economic relationship. As a result of India's adoption of a parliamentary democracy after independence, the US assumed that as a ...

The article is devoted to the problem of theoretical and legal understanding relations. subject study bifurcated – general attitudes post-Soviet mainstream discourse in this area are compared with marginalized ideas Marxist theory relations, supplemented by modern society, which significant for its concretization conditions. article's main goal problematize methodological foundations relations ...