EditorialDear colleagues and readers, Atlantic Studies: The Making of a New ParadigmStepping into the Atlantic World as a research paradigm may be compared to being dropped into Kafka's Prague, where evidently jokes about professors and umbrellas are quite popular. In his recent book Le rideau, the Czech novelist Milan Kundera tells one about Albert Einstein who taught at the University of Prague for a brief period. Einstein had just finished his lecture and was about to leave the classroom when he heard a student addressing ... Russia’s Role in U.S. Policy on Global Democratization: Discussion PaperThis paper examines the connection between the Russian Federation and U.S. efforts to encourage the spread of democracy and freedom in key regions, especially the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. The first section briefly outlines the thrust of U.S. policy. The second section reviews trends within Russia itself, a country that many Western governments once hoped would become a flourishing democracy. The third section explains what ... CIA NIEs on former Yugoslavia: a view from BulgariaIntroduction. The establishment of the CIA Office of National Estimates in 1950 marked a new stage in the US Intelligence Community history, although some authors claimed that it was created in the early postwar period by the DCI (Gen. W. Bedell Smith) to be “able to overcome the objections of State, Army, and Navy to obtain the independent authority” (*1). Sherman Kent, the “father” of the NIE... In Search for Self - Identity: |
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