Word: sovietization
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...Boris Yeltsin has now been replaced by a president with ambitions to restore Moscow?s big-power status. And President Vladimir Putin is quite happy to step on Washington's toes to do that, increasingly staking out positions that run counter to U.S. interests on the world stage - rebuilding Soviet-era relationships from Baghdad to Havana, openly discussing a strategic alliance with China and India to curb U.S. power on the global stage and, perhaps most important to Washington, looking to secure new orders for his country?s arms industry. Only days before the U.S. presidential election, Russia withdrew from...
...Clinton Legacy: Managing the North Korea relationship has been one of the Clinton administration's success stories, as unglamorous and even unseemly as the technique may have seemed. The North Koreans have hit desperate times since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and their weapons programs have been widely viewed as a means of extorting aid from the West. But providing food relief may have helped walk Pyongyang away from doing something really stupid, and this has been generally applauded by U.S. allies on North Korea's doorstep. But Congress isn't particularly comfortable about the idea of bailing...
Russian parliament votes to bring back Soviet national anthem
...Even where state authority remains intact, geopolitical dynamics are changing. The collapse of the Soviet Union left the world with only one superpower, but a decade later the absence of a counterweight is pressing a growing number of diverse actors to engage in alliances of convenience to counter what they perceive as U.S. "hegemony." Russia, China and India, for example, may be at each other's throats most of the time, but all share an interest in curbing U.S. influence in Asia and are making that perspective part of their foreign policy. Washington's NATO partners in Europe are increasingly...
...almost every regional conflict in the world into a global system of conflict, which was managed at the top by two states that had an overarching interest in avoiding instability that could drag them into a very dangerous confrontation. After it ended, many of the states of the old Soviet empire began to collapse, accelerating crime, lawlessness, tribal violence and terrorism. And the problem acknowledged in "Global Trends 2015" is that governments don't have very sophisticated mechanisms for dealing with "non-state actors...