Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Surely the Russian President had no choice but to respond with force. His increasingly heavy reliance on the military, however, is not the most promising sign that Western governments backing him could wish for. To whatever extent that U.S. and European goodwill has aided democratization so far, the sustenance obviously needs to continue over the long haul, especially when Russian turbulence is not resounding round the world. Genghis Khan on the line is one thing; on the switches of an ICBM force, quite another...
...balance, the U.S. and other Western powers have acquitted themselves fairly well in supporting the new, improving Moscow. Their ministrations in calming even wilder frontiers have, in contrast, been notable duds. George Bush decided to let Europe settle Yugoslavia. Europe decided it needed the U.N., which decided it needed America, which is where Bill Clinton, famous critic of Bush's nonpolicy toward the Balkans, came in. Clinton, who also inherited Bush's more active strategy for Somalia, embodies the tendency of privileged nations in appearing newly allergic to foreign affairs. By ^ everything he has said and done since taking office...
...DOUBT A GOOD THING THAT BORIS YELTSIN AND the forces of reform won in Russia. But it was not such a good thing that they needed the firepower of the army to do it. Although Western leaders are relieved that the armed forces came down on the more enlightened side of Moscow's political divide, they must face the disconcerting fact that the generals have earned themselves a place of power in Kremlin policymaking. Already positions have started to harden. Echoes of old, Soviet-sounding themes are being heard beneath the lighter melodies of democracy and reform...
...played a minor role," says Archie Brown, director of Oxford University's Russian and Eastern European Center. "This time its role was crucial. It wants its price, which means that Russia will not be as democratic as we expected. It also means that the Foreign Ministry's strongly pro-Western and liberal policies will be overshadowed by the Defense Ministry's harder line...
...Western Front. 343 Western Ave., Cambridge. 492-7772. Rumbafrica on Thursday, Oct. 14. I-Tones on Friday, Oct. 15 and Saturday...