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  • Why Didn't the United States become a Garrison State?

    • Authors: Aaron L. Friedberg (1992)

  • The Cold War has ended, not with the bang of war or the whimper of mutual accommodation, but with an awesome rumbling as one of the two contestants collapses in upon itself. Debate over why this happened when and how it did is just beginning and, like the earlier discussion of the causes of the Cold War, it will no doubt go on for some time. Still, as the full scope of Soviet military exertions over the past four decades and the precise extent of the damage they have done to the Soviet economy become clearer, the outline of an answer has already begun to emerge...
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  • Will Europe's Past Be Asia's Future

    • Authors: Aaron L. Friedberg (2000)

  • For the first time in the modern era, Asia is emerging as a distinct regional state system – a cluster of strong, prosperous, independent nations dealing intensively and continuously with one another in diplomatic, strategic and economic matters. Prior to the nineteenth century, geography and technology combined to keep these Asian interactions at a comparatively low level. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the region was largely dominated by outside imperial powers, then divided by the Cold War.