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...dyads, or pairs of rivals, that could easily slip out of balance and alliances that constantly shift. The major states in the region -- Germany, France, Britain, perhaps Italy, certainly a shrunken but still formidable Russia -- will jockey for advantage, sometimes with, but often against, one another. Meanwhile, Hungary and Romania, Poland and Czechoslovakia may dig up ancient border disputes. "The geometry of power," writes Mearsheimer, would become "a design for tension, crisis and possibly even...
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...firms that are racing to Eastern Europe could take a lesson from the patience shown by Minneapolis-based Control Data, which since 1973 has built disk drives and other computer products in Romania (pop. 23 million). The joint venture with a Romanian company, which took five years to turn a profit, exports half its output to the West. "The biggest problem was the lack of the business environment that we in the West are used to," recalls Helmut Koller, Control Data's marketing director for Eastern Europe. "We basically had to create our own suppliers...
Despite their different ways of handling street dissent, those in power in Bucharest and Sofia share significant similarities. Just as Iliescu and his supporters seemed prepared to take over in Romania as soon as Ceausescu was toppled, Bulgaria's longtime Foreign Minister, Petar Mladenov, carefully orchestrated the ouster last November of dictator Todor Zhivkov and then engineered his own succession as President...
Gypsy wagons rolling down a main road, plows pulled by oxen, and other Bruegelesque scenes lend charm to Romania, Hungary and the rest of the East bloc. But be prepared for inconveniences and overcrowding...