Economic stability and growth are important factors in a states endeavor to acquire political power. ... Like economic strength a military arsenal is also "an instrument of political power". Economic resources are important in the political arena since all state disputes do not require military action, having economic power and influence makes available alternative avenues of conflict resolution for states. ... First, competition, secondly diffidence, third glory" (Betts, 48). Since mans true nature encompasses competition, diffidence, and glory it is only natural to assume without the presen...

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While tremendous changes are evident in both the governmental and economic arenas in Europe, these changes cannot be assumed to always be "mutually reinforcing" (Preuss 47). ... According to theories of modernization, the higher the levels of socioeconomic achievement, the greater the pressure for open competition and, ultimately, democracy. ... According to Preuss, these problems were threefold: The genuine economic devastations wrought by the communist regimes, the transformation of the social and economic classes of the command economy into the social and economic classe...

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Hitler rejected the Principles of Liberalism such as Rule of Law, Individual Rights and Freedoms, Competition, Economic Freedom, Self-Interest and also Private Property (only in some cases). ... Prior to Stalin's reign, the Economic Policy allowing peasants to own farmlands and decide what to produce was established through Lenin. ... This rejected Economic Freedom, Private Property, Self-Interest and as well as Competition since the state controlled the economy--since it is in Stalin's plan to have a command economy or a system in which the government makes all the decisions involvi...

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Nevertheless political and economic system in China is stable, and the level of foreign capital is increasing every year. ... Old world order was time for terrorists, local conflicts, competition of military power and world division. ... According to the Chinese authorities new geopolitical policy must be based on the principles competition and cooperation and the core of the policy is improvement of Chinese economic competitiveness. It means that China became an equal participant in international relations, with the virtues of global cooperation, development of regional environmental, the fin...

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Introduction Cold War refers to the condition of political hostility and military tensions between power blocks, involving threats, economic sanctions, subversion, and propaganda and other measures short of open warfare, for example, the one that existed between the Soviet power blocs and the United States after World War II. ... First, it resulted in enormous human and economic costs. ... The cold war also led to the Soviet Union and the United States exploiting economic and social tensions around the world as part of the competition of cold war. ... Lastly is the economic legacies; the Cold ...

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The Cold War was based on the nuclear military competition between the two superpowers (Holm 7). ... A group of mostly wealthy and democratic societies that led by the United States was engaged in a pervasive ideological, political, economic, and at times, military competition with a group that were the poorer communist societies associated with the led by the Soviet Union. ... In the post Cold War, the most important distinctions among peoples are not ideological, political, or economic, but they are cultural. ...

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By the 1980s there was no economic growth in the Soviet Economy. ... Gorbachev, recognizing social and economic costs of alcoholism, attempted to reduce it. ... This was a competition of immense spending to develop massive weapons arsenals in order to gain international prestige and to have the trump card in international affairs. ... This was a costly war, both in economic and psychological terms. ... Gorbachev's economic reforms were not successful. ...

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The reason for choosing Russia is that we want to start off with a country that is large and has a steady economic foundation. ... One major problem that faces us when considering the competition is that Russian stores do not seem to be too mainstream like most American stores. ... Module 3 The difficulty in establishing our stores in Russia arises from the economic situation that exists. ... The main factor in our selection of Russia as a potential site for Target stores is its lack of competition. ... However, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade estimate this l...

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Mongolia was an economic colony of the Soviet Union until early in the 20th century. ... Mongolia is a good example of the pitfalls of applying economic models of developed countries in less developed countries. ... Economic liberalization, from the herders" perspective, "has taken away most of these gains in return for the illusion of economic freedom" (Swift in Griffin). The economic reforms of the early 1990s, which aimed to privatize these institutions, were not simply economic reforms but changed a whole way of living. ... The trauma of privatization has left Mongolia facing ...

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Economic liberalisation in Russia was initiated by Boris Yeltsin who was given special power by the Russian parliament to carry out reforms by decree. The process of economic reforms had already been continuing for more than twenty years by then. ... Privatisation in the post-USSR Russia was a simultaneous process and resulted in an economic disaster that would take years to be reversed. ... Rather than improving productivity through market competition as liberal economics suggests, the new owners of Russian SOEs set up a parallel private firm to the SOEs they own and made profits by buying go...

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Such problems were the disarmament and peace treaty, the fixing of the boundaries and the conditions for the economic unification. ... Historian, Louis Halle, compared the situation with the animal behaviour: "If you put a scorpion and a tarantula (USA/USSR) together in a bottle (Europe) the object of their own self-preservation will impel them to fight each other to the death."4 The way for the political and economic division of Germany was cleared and it had already seemed to clear for Stalin, Attlee and Truman at the Potsdam Conference since the only thing they truly agreed on in this confe...

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It has never prevented a wide range of substantial connections between different societies, in the political, economic, social, cultural, technological, and other areas. ... Thus, anarchy turns into competition, because the units follow self-help and fight for their own survival (the exclusion of the quality' of the unit is still valid, in terms of ideology, regime form or economic production). ...

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C) The positive results China is now the second or the third economic great power. ... The demand is the stimulus of the economic growth and China has an important domestic demand which is unsatisfied. ... However the effect is not an increase of the prices but an increase of the competition. ...

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This turned Moscow into the economic capital of Russia and eventually served as the hub of the Russian revolution against the Mongols. ... When Vladmir began to feel the effects of their constant competition with Moscow and the other Russian center, Tver, Vladmir quickly became unsuitable for the headquarters of the Orthodox Church. ... With the most powerful political Russian entity now within Moscow's walls, Moscow became a political and economic center, even before the Tver uprising. ...

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However, I should mention that the US government could not simply accept the fact that a country could exist with economic and political principles so critically opposed to democracy and industrial capitalism. ... Both sides wanted their values and economic and political systems to prevail in areas which their soldiers had helped to liberate. ... Two superpowers with a completely different ideology, economic and political systems would probably have that confrontation between each other under any circumstances. ... However, even if the Cold War would not be inevitable between them, there were ...

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By 1928, Stalin had eliminated his viable competition , yet he "proceeded to purge the party and terrorize the entire country with widespread arrests and executions." ... Eager to be rid of the NEP, the New Economic Policy, Lenin's benevolent intermediary capitalist economy, Stalin hoped to teleport the Soviet Union into his promised Socialist state in a revolutionary movement, not the projected evolutionary age. ...

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By 1928, Stalin had eliminated his viable competition , yet he "proceeded to purge the party and terrorize the entire country with widespread arrests and executions." ... Eager to be rid of the NEP, the New Economic Policy, Lenin's benevolent intermediary capitalist economy, Stalin hoped to teleport the Soviet Union into his promised Socialist state in a revolutionary movement, not the projected evolutionary age. ...

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The most characteristic feature of the Cold War, indeed the very reason behind the name, is that superpowers were afraid of the potential consequences between them, as epitomized by the fear of nuclear Armageddon.  As a result, both sides were dedicated to fighting the battle through proxies rather than directly. These proxies usually took the form of communists or nationalist rebels that were financed and armed by the Soviet Union and the USA respectively. Throughout this era however, the phrase 'history repeats itself' comes to mind. Both the superpowers seemed to make recurring...

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Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera was influenced by the wars in the early 1900s that paved the way for a Bolshevik culture rooted in the principles of communism. For example, Russia's Soviet Montage Era in the 1920s dissuaded producers from the conventional ways of making films and encouraged t...

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Although the German film industry was booming, filmmakers found it difficult to create movies because of the hard economic times and because of the big competition with Hollywood. ... These pioneers of Soviet cinema, working under economic constraints, re-edited existing film-stock to develop their ideas of film grammar. ...

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Not only was the environment and landscape different because of the two sides joining, it also raised the levels of unemployment and competition. ... During this time some questions have also rose about the crime rate, and if it arose due to the economic standpoint. ...

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