... statist' model will not be torn up in the interests of a purer Anglo-American neo liberalism. Indeed, evidence from governmental policy reform in South Korea, Thailand and Malaysia since the currency crises of 1997 demonstrates the still central role for the state. For example, labour flexibilisation, as in the reform of the Korean trade unions, has been important, but so too has been ... a recognition of the importance of the state provision of some kind of welfare net for those most disadvantaged by the effects of globalisation.25 What the crisis in Asia and subsequent events in other ...

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... strategic status quo . The following two weeks the world was holding its breath in anticipation of a full-scale nuclear war. The firm US stance eventually led the Russians to concede and dismantle their missile base. The missile crisis was a tremendous shock to the two superpowers, unlike the Korean war of 1950 - 53, the confrontation this time was not between substitutes, but between the Americans and ... the Soviets themselves, who were both looking at the prospect of having each other's nuclear missiles bearing down on themselves. It is this near apocalyptic prospect ... as the Cuba...

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... identifies, there have also been instances where Britain has sought to restrain and dampen the actions of the US - during the Korean War for instance. This has particularly been the case during the post-Cold War period when it has frequently been Britain that has needed to prod and coax its America ally ... stronger hand when dealing with the US and they would carry the full force of the EU behind them. A beneficial consequence of making this choice would be that the questions of whether Britain is a true European and the effect that British relations with the US has had on shaping Brita...

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