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...which killed millions. By contrast, the end of the cold war was hardly devastating. The post-1945 nuclear stand-off between the Soviet Union and the West had brought a perilous stability, but had generated proxy wars from Korea and...

In this article: Russia, Inflation, Bolshevik, Vladimir Putin, Korea, Central America, and Vietnam

...Magazine's 64 Most Beautiful People of 2008. In high school, Chang visited both Central America and the former Soviet Union, where he developed an interest in international relations. He attended Georgetown University, where he was a...

In this article: State Department, United Nations, Paper Magazine, Foreign Service Officer, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

...elsewhere in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. She also wrote about European politics and foreign policy and covered dissident movements in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. She was banned from East Germany and harassed by...

In this article: Lucy Komisar, Henry Kissinger, Tax, In These Times, New York, U.S., and Tax Justice Network

...military forces who have invaded America. The original movie was set in an alternate 1980s and follows an invasion of the US by then Soviet Union armed forces and soldiers from Central America. Connor, along with his co-stars, is set to...

In this article: Connor Cruise, Miley Cyrus, Tom Cruise, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Chris Hemsworth, Seven Pounds, Star Trek, Disney TV, Will Smith, and Isabel Lucas

...West couldn't effectively put a stop to Soviet-supported movements across the globe. And the Soviets knew they had the freedom afforded by their nuclear umbrella at, so they pushed us from Southeast Asia to Africa to Central America,...

In this article: Iran, Hezbollah, Gulf States, Africa, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Afghanistan

...given Havana's close ties to Moscow. The collapse of the Soviet Union crippled Cuba's economy, however, and borrowing and increased trade with China has helped the island recover in recent years. Hu's trip to Costa Rica was his first to...

In this article: Cuba, Hu Jintao, China, Raul Castro, Havana, Fidel Castro, Socialism, Surgery, Communist Party, and Sugar

...to get virtually every major national security issue wrong. He supported appeasement of the Soviets and opposed the Reagan policies that brought down the Berlin Wall. He opposed the Reagan Doctrine and thought Communism should be...

In this article: John Kerry, National Review, Communism, Bill Clinton, Central America, Soviets, and Vietnam

...particularly in war-torn Central America and Afghanistan. Reagan also promoted new technologies such as missile defense systems in order to confront the Soviets and their allies. In diplomacy, Reagan forged a strong alliance with UK Prime...

In this article: Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, Surgery, White House, George H. W. Bush, Nancy Reagan, and Economics

...Central America. But Reagan also stepped up negotiations on nuclear arms control and participated in summits with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, a practice continued by George H.W. Bush until the Soviet Union's collapse. In the 1990s, the...

In this article: Richard M. Nixon, United States, Barack Obama, Iran, Nikita Khrushchev, Hezbollah, John McCain, and Uranium