Stephen Cohen
Stephen Cohen
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On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.
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Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on November 21 into a new cold war with Russia.
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Pakistan already has a similar law but its record speaks for itself.
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But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.
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There is an enormous amount of medical expense in this case. I imagine it is in the neighborhood of the mid to upper six figures, if not seven figures. And that's just medical expenses, not pain and suffering.
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The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States.
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We were tied up in Korea; we were worried about the Russians. And, conceivably, they said 'nuclear' because they didn't want him to do anything for India; that this was a way of raising the stakes so high as to make it not an option.
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We think it's hard to draw an accurate conclusion about customer service based on singular visits to three branches.
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Both sides have tried all alternatives - ranging from ignoring the other side (India), to the use of force (Pakistan), to the threat of the use of force (India again). Now both sides have run out of options other than to sit across the table and talk.
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Twenty years later, then, little, if anything, is left of the historic opportunities Gorbachev opened up for his country and the world.
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This is a radically different way of interacting with money transfers than what people are used to.
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The United States right now is going through a difficult period in the Middle East, where there is a great deal of animosity toward the United States in the streets, ... It's important now for the United States to be doing things to lower the level of hostility in the region, to be in the position to engage elements of the Arab world in a more important dialogue that would engender some respect.
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For India, it's very, very important, very symbolic to be given the key to this club.
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The nuclear agreement attempts to cut through this past history, and offer to India a tailor-made 'regime' outside of the NPT.