The community of human rights activists has been deeply concerned about China’s harsh measures against the Falun Gong and has brought the matter to the attention of the United Nations. Since 1999, when the first reports of psychiatric abuse of Falun Gong practitioners began to reach the West, activists have turned to organized psychiatry to rally to their cause. To my knowledge, complaints have...

BACKGROUND Enlargement of the European Union has caused worries about the possibility of increased migration from its new members, the former Soviet countries, and consequently increased demands on the health care systems of the host countries. This study investigated whether or not earlier immigrants from the former Soviet Bloc have poorer self-reported mental health, measured as self-reported...

Economic game experiments have become a prominent method among social scientists developing and testing theories of cooperation. These games provide a valuable opportunity to generate measures of cooperation that can be compared from one place to the next, yet challenges remain in how to interpret crosscultural differences in these experiments and connect them to cooperation in naturally occurr...

On 5 July 1989, in a remarkable display of military glasnost, a team of us scientists organized by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a team of Soviet scientists from the I. v: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy measured the radiation emitted by the nuclear warhead of a cruise missile aboard the Soviet ship Slavs. The measurements took place in the Black Sea off Yalta. We publi...

HAVANASoviet P residen t M ikhail G orbachev told the Cuban leg isla ture Tuesday th a t Soviet-style reform s w ere not a un iversal rem edy for all com ­ m unist countries. In a 53-minute speech before the Cuban National Assem bly, G orbachev also proposed th a t a “ zone of p eace” be es tab ­ lished in Latin A m erica and the C aribbean and renounced any Soviet intention of establish ing na...

The grand "Soviet experiment" constituted an attempt to greatly accelerate and even shortcut the gradual course of historical development on the assumption of presumed knowledge of the general laws of history. This paper discusses the parts of that experiment that directly concerned scientific research and, in fact, anticipated or helped define important global changes in the functioning of sci...

As part of a continuing study in international high altitude physiological research, protective equipment development, operational support, and aerospace life-support subsystem planning, an open-source review was made of Soviet high-altitude pressure suit development, testing, and use. Beginning with a crude prototype suit in 1934, the Soviet pressure suit program quickly expanded into an excep...

The question "what causes alignment?" is a central issue in debates on American foreign policy, and the choices that are made often turn on which hypotheses of alliance formation are endorsed. In general, those who believe that American security is fragile most often assume that Soviet allies are reliable and America's are prone to defect, while those who believe it is robust tend to view Ameri...

(Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia) CASE Visiting Fellow, UC Berkeley November 2008 Civil-Military Relations in Russia. Field Report Civil-military relations Civil-military relations are a very important issue for the modern Russian politics. Russia’s location and geopolitical situation required it to participate in multiple wars and conflicts over some 323 years to maintain ...

We use scaling and statistical models to study networks of ties among Soviet politicians during the Brezhnev era created by their co-attendance at events. The data consist of observations made by the National Foreign Assessment Center of the Central Intelligence Agency of appearances of Soviet political elites at official and social events for 8 years during the height of the Brezhnev era. Conv...