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This paper discusses that a combination of natural and industrial causes are at fault for the destruction of the ecosystem surrounding the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest inland body of fresh water. The author addresses issues of pollution, weather, and water quality from a geological/environmental science perspective.

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The paper examines how Kennan's work manages to predict many aspects of the inevitable fall of Communism, such as the negative economic state and the influence of foreign policy.

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This paper discusses the causes and consequences to the disintegration of the Soviet regime. It argues that the failure was due to economic bankruptcy, totalitarianism and the increasing problems of ethnic nationalism.

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This paper explores how the quest for nationalism and the nationalist ideology promoted the development of specific forms of government and public policy in both Prussia and Austria during the 19th Century.

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This paper reviews Thomas De Waal's and Carlotta Gall's "Chechnya, Calamity in the Caucasus", John Dunlop's "Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict", Stasys Knezys' and Romanas Sedlickas' "The War in Chechnya", and Anatol Lieven's "Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power". The review synthesizes the main theme of the demise of Russian nationalism.

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This paper discusses the nationalism as a force for the demise of the Soviet System. Moscow, therefore, had to find a way of dealing with this problem. It succeeded in the short term, but never had the capacity to deal with it in the long term. It was the ethnic problem, therefore, and the Soviet regime's inability to deal with it, that contributed to the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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This paper discusses the problems associated with the post-Soviet nationalist issue. It argues that the development of a national identity for former Soviet states is risk-laden because of the Soviet past.

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This paper discusses the statement that, because the Economic and Monetary Union in Europe was largely the offspring of politics, it is doomed to failure. While accepting the assumption of political birth, the paper argues that the conclusion is not necessarily so and that the long-term success or failure of the EMU depends on events that have yet to take place. The paper concludes that there is a good likelihood that the EMU will succeed in some form or other.

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This paper examines attempts to integrate post-Soviet economies in Eastern Europe into the world economy. This paper examines Poland as case study. It examines its economy in transition and its efforts to increase economic integration with Western Europe.

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This paper examines Poland's transition from socialism to capitalism. Initially, it outlines historic factors that played a role in transition. Then it examines the economic programs and changes that have occurred in the country since 1991. It is concluded that Poland is one of the most successful transition economies in Eastern Europe.

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This paper examines Russia as facing the greatest challenge in the transition from plan to market. It might even be argued that Russia faces the greatest political and economic challenge the world has ever known. As the mother of communism, Russia was longer steeped in its tenets than its satellite states. And as a geo-political behemoth, creating social consensus and moving towards democratic consolidation has always been next to impossible. In the end, Russia is an un-natural economic and political unit. To present, this has made success impossible, and more of the same can be expected in the future. Russia's next leader will inherit a legacy that is unwieldy, corrupt, bankrupt (morally and financially), and almost doomed to failure. Only if you have the hands of a magician, Mr. Primakov, can you make something of this disaster.

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This paper surveys political developments but focuses on economic change of the Polish economy. It concludes that Poland leads amongst transition economies in terms of development. It also concludes that it will successfully enter the European Union by 2005.

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This paper examines the process of economic and political transformation in Hungary that has occurred since the devolution of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. It assesses transition in terms of governmental change, economic change and social change.

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This paper examines the process of economic and political transformation that has occurred in Poland since 1989. In both political and economic terms the transformation of Poland has led the Eastern European countries. This paper examines the process, the benefits and the problems of transition in Poland.

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This paper explores the regional agreements Russia currently has and how Russia operates within them.