Word: post-soviet
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This is not cowardice. This is realism. The U.N. troops refuse to immolate themselves doing a job that they inherently cannot do. It is the kind of realism that America could use to pierce some of the fantasies that have arisen in U.S. thinking about the post-Soviet world. The chief fantasy is that the U.S., indeed the world, can now rely on "collective security" and its agency, the U.N., for its safety and security...
Despite the slow unraveling of the C.I.S., there was welcome news last week on the post-Soviet issue that matters most to the West: nuclear weapons. After a minisummit in Washington, President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced that Kazakhstan would adhere to the START treaty, which slashes long-range arsenals. In a country where isolated ethnic conflicts are turning into regional confrontations, nuclear proliferation is the greatest threat...
...Lawrence Broz, who is finishing his dissertation at the University of California, Los Angeles, well be assistant professor of international relations. Joel Hellman, presently a student at Columbia University, will be assistant professor in post-Soviet politics...
...post-Soviet Russia has taken a firm stand against terrorism. At week's end, it joined with all the other members of the Security Council to strongly condemn the latest violence in Tripoli...
...years the Soviet Union was a society in which the sense of the sacred was either extirpated or grotesquely transferred to communist relics like Lenin statues and Lenin's corpse. The post-Soviet state, embarking on democracy, could use an infusion of an older and more honorable form of the sacred about...