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The paper analyzes the evolving policies of China and the Soviet Union toward the Korean Peninsula and assesses their implications for U.S. policy. The author suggests that, without sacrificing elements of its deterrent posture, the United States sho...
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Three recent developments on the Korean Peninsula are noteworthy: South Korea's successful transition to a more democratic government, South Korea's continuing strong economy, and North Korea's growing domestic and foreign policy difficulties. For th...
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This paper presents a series of sociopolitical reflections on the Turkish experience since the 1920s, when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk set the country on the path toward Western-style modernization, and on the results of this process.
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Inside the Soviet Army in Afghanistan
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This report examines the prospects of the political leadership of North Korea passing from Supreme Leader Kim Il Sung to his son Kim Jong Il.
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This report examines the nature of the relationship between the Soviet Union and Vietnam within the framework of the political and military polarization that has taken place in Southeast Asia since 1978. It discusses the historical background of Sov...
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The collapse of Marcos's regime in the Philippines caught most observers off guard. Country assessments produced by U.S. government, Congressional, and private business sources before that downfall were examined to determine their usefulness...
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This paper is adapted from essays written for the Britannica Book of the Year--1987. In it, the author reviews key political, economic, and foreign policy developments in China and Taiwan during 1986. In the case of China, he notes that continuing de...
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... considers the schools of thought into which the debaters (the
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Examines individual women's histories of contraceptive method use, using data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey, looking especially at the types of contraceptive changes they make over their reproductive careers.
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Data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey show an increase in the percentage of infants breastfed, at least initially, from 75 percent in the period from 1970 to 1974, to 79 percent in the period from 1975 to 1977.
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From 1941 through 1975, infant and child mortality rates were higher in the poorest states than in the other states of Peninsular Malaysia. This Note investigates possible reasons for those higher rates, using household-level data ...
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This Note considers the influences on contraceptive use in Peninsular Malaysia over the period 1961-1975, when the contraceptive use rate increased dramatically. It indicates how influences differ among six contraceptive methods.
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It uses individual-level retrospective data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey to examine why the infant mortality rate (IMR) has declined rapidly in Malaysia since World War II.
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This paper is adapted from essays written for the Britannica Book of the Year--1985. In it, the author reviews key political, economic, and foreign policy developments in China and Taiwan during 1984. In the case of China, he notes its effort to incr...
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This paper is adapted from essays written for the Britannica Book of the Year--1986. In it, the author reviews key political, economic, and foreign policy developments in China and Taiwan during 1985. In the case of China, he notes its continued purs...
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This paper, an expanded version of an op-ed piece that originally appeared in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner on December 15, 1985, reviews the motivations for the use or sponsorship of terrorism by Libya's Colonel Muammar Qaddafi; discusses his policies
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This paper, which originally appeared as an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, reviews recent terrorist attacks against American targets, and considers both the causes and pitfalls of fixing blame on such visible figures as Libya's Muamm...
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Considers the growth of China's steel industry since the inception of the Four Modernizations plan for economic development. The paper focuses primarily on Beijing's decision to import foreign technology to facilitate this development.
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This paper, which is a chapter from the forthcoming book U.S.-Soviet Competition in the Middle East, reviews the current state of arms transfers to the Middle East. In recent years such transfers have increased greatly and are not likely to abate in ...
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