After The Bloc

Author : Melisa Deciancio,Cintia Quiliconi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000614480

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Regional and International Cooperation in South America After COVID by Melisa Deciancio,Cintia Quiliconi Pdf

This volume analyses South American regional and international cooperation during the COVID19 crisis started in 2020. Across thirteen chapters a collection of leading experts address how regional collaboration has developed, evolved, and recoiled. The chapters explore the state of regionalism at the pandemic surge and the challenges and opportunities this situation has opened for regional and international cooperation. Authors analyze the role of extra-regional powers and traditional regional leaders during the pandemic, identifying the extent to which regional cooperation has been possible across several policy agendas. They argue that fragmented visions of regionalism, ideological polarization, and weak leadership, has prevailed from before the pandemic which, accompanied by adverse interactions among major powers, has ensured that cooperation has remained bilateral rather than regional. Ultimately all these factors have created a complex scenario in which disintegration dynamics have emerged, darkening, even more, the South American regional panorama. Regional and International Cooperation in South America After COVID will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars and policy specialists of regionalism and regional integration, Latin American studies, international relations and international political economy.

Author : GLYN G. JAMIESON AND HAILE T. DEBAS
Publisher : Springer
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781489966216

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Surgery of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract by GLYN G. JAMIESON AND HAILE T. DEBAS Pdf

Author : Wolfgang Klaiber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : IND:30000088494152

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The Future Political Options of Eastern Europe in the Soviet Bloc by Wolfgang Klaiber Pdf

Author : Günther Heydemann,Karel Vodička
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785333187

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From Eastern Bloc to European Union by Günther Heydemann,Karel Vodička Pdf

More than 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, European integration remains a work in progress, especially in those Eastern European nations most dramatically reshaped by democratization and economic liberalization. This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven states—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and the former East Germany—that went on to join the European Union. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations that have taken place in these nations, using a comparative approach to identify structural similarities and assess outcomes relative to one another as well as the rest of the EU.

Author : Franklyn D Holzman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000316261

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The Economics Of Soviet Bloc Trade And Finance by Franklyn D Holzman Pdf

Reflecting Professor Holzman's important work, this book deals with major issues relating to both East-West and intra-bloc trade. Professor Holzman explores the transition in Soviet bloc economies over the past fifteen years from balanced hard-currency trade to large deficits with the West and the consequent development of a huge hard-currency debt. He compares the causes and treatments of deficits in planned economies with those in market economies and explores the dramatic differences in foreign trade behavior exhibited by Eastern and Western nations and the difficulties that arise when these conflicting systems interact in world markets. He also assesses the impact of Western economic warfare on the Soviet Union and makes recommendations for future U.S. trade policy. The author next turns to the issue of intra-bloc trade. In its early years the USSR economically exploited the smaller East European nations, but many argue that the Soviet Union now subsidizes trade with its partners in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in exchange for political, military, and ideological support–an argument that Professor Holzman strongly challenges. He also contends that CMEA, when viewed as a preferential trade group or customs union, has been markedly unsuccessful. On another level, Professor Holzman assesses the causes and possible cures for the serious, chronic problems related to currency inconvertibility, rigid bilateralism, and inability to use exchange rates as tools of economic adjustment. In an international economy growing ever more interdependent, the issues raised in these previously uncollected essays will continue to gain in importance as East and West meet in trade.

Author : Ivan T. Berend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521493659

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From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union by Ivan T. Berend Pdf

An authoritative study that covers the social and economic history of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973.

Author : Norman Birnbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198028185

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After Progress by Norman Birnbaum Pdf

The twentieth century witnessed a profound shift in both socialism and social reform. In the early 1900s, social reform seemed to offer a veritable religion of redemption, but by the century's end, while socialism remained a vibrant force in European society, a culture of extreme individualism and consumption all but squeezed the welfare state out of existence. Documenting this historic change, After Progress: European Socialism and American Social Reform in the 20th Century is the first truly comprehensive look at the course of social reform and Western politics after Communism, brilliantly explained by a major social thinker of our time. Norman Birnbaum traces in fascinating detail the forces that have shifted social concern over the course of a century, from the devastation of two world wars, to the post-war golden age of economic growth and democracy, to the ever-increasing dominance of the market. He makes sense of the historical trends that have created a climate in which politicians proclaim the arrival of a new historical epoch but rarely offer solutions to social problems that get beyond cost-benefit analyses. Birnbaum goes one step further and proposes a strategy for bringing the market back into balance with the social needs of the people. He advocates a reconsideration of the notion of work, urges that market forces be brought under political control, and stresses the need for education that teaches the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Both a sweeping historical survey and a sharp-edged commentary on current political posturing, After Progress examines the state of social reform past, present and future.

Author : Sheldon Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429982378

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A Cold War In The Soviet Bloc by Sheldon Anderson Pdf

In A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Sheldon Anderson uses recently declassified documents from Polish and East German communist party and foreign ministry archives to examine the interplay of national interests with the exigencies of communist party relations within the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. Anderson explores how Polish-East German relations were strained over the permanence of the Oder-Neisse border, the correct road to socialism, German repatriation from Poland, and trade policy; he provides an inside account of the heated debates that seriously divided the Polish and East German communists.Anderson delves into how and why the rift culminated in the return of the anti-Stalinist Wladyslaw Gomulka in October 1956, and he delineates how the Polish-East German conflict undermined the unity of the Soviet bloc on its most strategic flank. In doing so, he reveals the persistence of nationalism and ethnic prejudice in the former communist countries. In this timely text, Anderson pinpoints how nationalism has reemerged as a powerful political force following the end of the Cold War. With A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Anderson markedly fills the gap in the existing scholarship on postwar relations between the countries of East Europe.

Author : Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Publisher : Villard
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307414618

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Around the Bloc by Stephanie Elizondo Griest Pdf

Desperate to escape South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent. So she headed to Russia looking for some excitement—commencing what would become a four-year, twelve-nation Communist bloc tour that shattered her preconceived notions of the “Evil Empire.” In Around the Bloc, Griest relates her experiences as a volunteer at a children’s shelter in Moscow, a propaganda polisher at the office of the Chinese Communist Party’s English-language mouthpiece in Beijing, and a belly dancer among the rumba queens of Havana. She falls in love with an ex-soldier who narrowly avoided radiation cleanup duties at Chernobyl, hangs out with Cuban hip-hop artists, and comes to difficult realizations about the meaning of democracy. is the absorbing story of a young journalist driven by a desire to witness the effects of Communism. Along the way, she learns the Russian mathematical equation for buying dinner-party vodka (one bottle per guest, plus an extra), stumbles upon Beijing’s underground gay scene, marches with 100,000 mothers demanding Elián González’s return to Cuba, and gains a new appreciation for the Mexican culture she left behind.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : MINN:31951D02106373Z

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Export of Strategic Materials to the U.S.S.R. and Other Soviet Bloc Countries by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws Pdf

October 26, 1962 Hearing was held in New York City.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : IND:30000091272603

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Export of Strategic Materials to the U. S. S. R. and Other Soviet Bloc Countries by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Pt. 2: Includes related testimony heard in executive session on Oct. 11 and 12, 1962. Focuses on strategic material export jurisdictional problems among State, Defense and Commerce Departments; pt. 3: Continuation of hearings on Soviet strategic materials trade. Hearing was held in New York City; pt. 3: Hearing was held in New York City.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128099766

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Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy III by Anonim Pdf

Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy III, Volume 140, a new volume in the Methods in Cell Biology, series continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. This is the third volume of Methods in Cell Biology covering current Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) methodologies. The field of CLEM is still growing and new combinations of imaging technologies provide exciting new insights. The chapters deal with different approaches to analyze the same specimen by more than one imaging technique to gain more and/or better information over applying each imaging technique separately. The strengths and application area of each presented CLEM approach are highlighted. This volume explores the aspects of sample preparation of diverse biological systemsfor different CLEM approaches and will serve as a valuable resource to researchers in the field of cell biology. Contains contributions from experts in the field Covered topics include targeted ultramicrotomy and high-precision correlation Presents recent advances and currently applied correlative approaches Gives detailed protocols allowing the application of workflows in one’s own laboratory setting Covers CLEM approaches in the context of specific applications Aims to stimulate the use of new combinations of imaging modalities

Author : Samuel Pisar,United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Communist countries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045231706

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A New Look at Trade Policy Toward the Communist Bloc by Samuel Pisar,United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee Pdf

Author : Mark J. Krasna
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781455712168

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Lung Cancer, An Issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics - E-Book by Mark J. Krasna Pdf

In this issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, Guest Editor Mark Krasna and colleagues discuss a wide range of topics devoted to lung cancer. Articles focus on pathology; updated staging systems; epidemiology of lung cancer - smoking, second hand smoke, and genetics; molecular markers for incidence, prognosis, and response to therapy; screening; diagnostic work-up; non-invasive staging techniques; surgical resection; the role of surgery following induction therapy for stage III NSCLC; the role of adjuvant chemotherapy in NSCLC (stages I-III); and much more.

Author : Zbigniew Brzezinski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : 0674825489

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The Soviet Bloc, Unity and Conflict by Zbigniew Brzezinski Pdf

This is the first full-length study of relations among the communist states. The study explores the implications of the status of Yugoslavia and China, the significance of the Hungarian revolution and the position of Poland in the Soviet bloc, and clarifies the Khrushchev-Gomulka clash of 1956 and the complex role of Tito. Zbigniew Brzezinski emphasizes the role of ideology and power in the relations among the communist states, contrasting bloc relations and the unifying role of Soviet power under Stalin with the present situation. He suggests that conflicts of interest among the ruling elites will result either in ideological disputes or in weakening the central core of the ideology, leading to a gradual decline of unity among the Communist states. The author, while on leave from his post as Professor and Director of the Research Institute on Communist Affairs, Columbia University, and serving on the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Council, has revised and updated his important study and added three new chapters on more recent developments. He gives particular attention to the Sino-Soviet dispute.