... can still be seen as contributing an important role in regional stability under the specific environment in which it is created and employed. Alternative security mechanisms, however, may provide a broader application to assist states in maintaining peaceful interaction with their neighbours. In discussing the relationship of Collective Defence in regional stability we must define what Collective Defence ... compared with contemporary security mechanisms, still perform a major role in a region security environment despite its limitations and "...should be regarded as highly flexible ar...

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... Even though this book is a collection of lectures where there is obvious subjectivity, Kennan successfully displays an objective view on the topics he discusses in the lecture. Kennan's lecture gives the reader a panoramic view and solid background of American thinking about themselves and the rest of the world ... argument, which is a good quality because he is not trying to force his opinion on anyone. " our national consciousness is dominated at present by a sense of insecurity greater even than that of many people of Western Europe who stand closer to, and a position far more vulnera...

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... demanding freedom of speech and freedom of markets? As many questions as we raise, the fact that Gorbachev turned out to be at the right position, in the right time, changing the course of history by crossing out the Communist Regime, still remains undeniable. Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev is a product of a system that does not encourage radical innovations or reforms, nor ... should we consider the factor that the collapse of the regime and the transition was accomplished in a fairly peaceful atmosphere, in the absence of external invasion or violent internal upheaval?6 According to a ...

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... to communicate with the Vietnamese peasants, and believed that "[their] concept of [nationhood] was largely gone in the rural areas, much less of patriotism," (Mecklin 3). Nonetheless, Mecklin also observed "the Vietnamese peasant was intensely aware of basic human relationships," and "thus remained unswayed by fancy, one-shot American aid gestures," (Mecklin 4). What we can surmise from this was that ... Vietnamese people was actually forming an ideological imperative that was impossible for them to crush. For Hoopes, a fighter pilot in the latter years of the Vietnam War, it was...

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... both states, their interests in this agreement and the situation of the contract workers. The author of this report is a scientific assistant at the university Duisburg and therefore has access to lots of source material. Its purpose includes that it was written as a preparation of a research project on the ''role of the socialistic developing countries of the CMEA'' by evaluating the backgrounds and ... the development of those countries. In addition the study is confirmed by the 'Bundesinstitut für ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien', the Federal Insitute for studies on ...

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... contain Soviet expansionism. American intervention was called for when countries faced Soviet pressure, hence setting the direction for subsequent policies such as the Marshall Plan which was passed by the Congress in March 1948. The latter cemented the economic divide in Europe, and the Soviets responded with the Molotov Plan. However, though undeniable that this economic divide was due to the new direction ... War. Hence, it could be said that Soviet aggression was responsible for the start of Cold War. However, even though the actions taken by the USSR may be perceived by the US as a...

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