Russian & Former Soviet Union
epub |eng | | Author:Diana Preston

The Allied advance continued that day. Montgomery launched his new offensive, Operation Veritable, aimed at driving south from Nijmegen to clear German troops from the area between the Rhine and ...
( Category: Treaties February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:George S. Beebe

In the years leading up to the Pearl Harbor attack, the United States had put Japan under increasingly severe economic pressure in response to Japanese military conquests and expansionist policies ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael E [Michael E]

Some Recent Cases Sanctions have been employed as an instrument of statecraft for years. Gary Hufbauer, Jeffrey Schott, and Kimberly Elliott considered more than 100 examples from just the twentieth ...
( Category: Asian February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Vladimir Bukovsky

It will be considered by the Soviet Government to be some kind of provocation to stop all the good developments which have resulted from American policy over the last few ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Joshua Yaffa

* * * — TWO DAYS AFTER THE vote, Putin gathered Russia’s political elite in the Kremlin’s Saint George Hall to announce Crimea’s formal annexation. He cited the peninsula’s historic ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Dimitar Bechev [Bechev, Dimitar]

“Our strategic neighbor” What conditioned the Russian–Turkish alignment, unprecedented since the interwar years, were ultimately shifts in the area of security. The Iraq War (2003–11) was a case in point. ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Thomas Wright [Wright, Thomas]

THE CASE OF CRIMEA As we saw in Chapter 2, Russia’s annexation of Crimea—the first unilateral territorial expansion in Europe since 1945—and its subsequent support for separatists in eastern Ukraine ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Dieter Helm [Helm, Dieter]

China’s economic model An export-led growth strategy requires others to have a corresponding demand for imports. The Chinese transformation just happened to coincide with the great late-twentieth-century boom in the ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-19 | Author:Grigory Yavlinsky

THE SOCIAL BASE OF PUTIN’S POWER Another important feature of a peripheral-type autocracy is the distinctive configuration of its social base of support. But before undertaking a description and analysis ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Etty, John [Etty, John]

CHAPTER SIX Making the Risible Visible: The Performative Construction of Non-Soviet Ideology in Krokodil Performance has been an important theme implicit in the discussion of Krokodil so far. Krokodil embodied ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Natalia Kamovnikova

EVGENII WITKOWSKY: I am convinced that interlinear trots are harmful, but not absolutely harmful. Interlinear trots make sense when they go about translating from the language that very few people ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Jonathan Renshon [Renshon, Jonathan]

Status Deficit → War → Increased Status Once those concerns are generated, how do states react? By far the most popular and well-known research on this question is status inconsistency, ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Guy Laron [Laron, Guy]

16 SECRET LIAISONS On the Importance of Unuttered Words IN JUNE 1964, Eshkol came to Washington for a fateful visit. He was worried that Johnson would bring up the tricky ...
( Category: African January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anders Aslund [Aslund, Anders]

Year Global Financial Integrity: Licit and illicit IMF: Capital flight 1994 20 16.7 1995 0 4 1996 20.3 25 1997 0.9 22.3 1998 57.2 26.8 1999 21.4 22 2000 15.6 ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-14 | Author:Joshua Yaffa

* * * — TWO DAYS AFTER THE vote, Putin gathered Russia’s political elite in the Kremlin’s Saint George Hall to announce Crimea’s formal annexation. He cited the peninsula’s historic ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 15,2020 )