Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's how the world has turned: the new movie version of Lolita is at this moment playing without any particular controversy in Moscow, former capital of hopelessly square Soviet socialist morality. After something like a year of relentless salesmanship, producers of Adrian Lyne's near reverent (but by no means inept or exploitative) adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's modernist classic has yet to find a theatrical distributor in the U.S., where, of course, morally ambivalent entanglements between older men and younger women have lately been hot news...
...NATO devoted to studying U.S. foreign policy and world relations, commissioned Reversing Relations with Former Adversaries as a part of their project on U.S. relations with Cuba. This academic association presents case studies of nations that have become friendlier towards the United States since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. The council aims to provide information about how the U.S. should approach the much looked-for normalization of diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba...
...overriding theme in recent U.S. diplomacy. Looking at the stories in Reversing Relations, one can consider all six of the formerly hostile states discussed in the book as either direct or indirect results of the Cold War. Even the U.S.'s troubles with Iraq stem from Iran's Soviet backing during the Iran-Iraq...
...even by this criteria it falls short of expectations. The article on the recent history of the United States' relationship with China, a topic about which countless books and papers have been written, condenses this immense subject into 20 pages. Any one of the other essays--involving the Soviet Union, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Iraq, and Cuba--are also much more complex than can be expressed in such a small space...
...particular relationship. The summaries in Reversing Relations would be justified if they led to concrete conclusions about how the U.S. should proceed in its dealings with Cuba. Failure to integrate the separate articles and produce these conclusions is this book's biggest failing. How can problems with the former Soviet Union and China, two major world powers and UN Security Council permanent members, compare to diplomatic relations with Nicaragua and Cuba, in which the U.S. is so much more powerful than either of these states...