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| Director: | Michael Mandelbaum, Christian Herter Professor, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University |
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September 1, 1986 - June 1, 1998
Publications
July 1998
This book offers the first authoritative, comprehensive account of Russian policies toward the world in the wake of communism’s collapse. It consists of four essays.
January 1997
The dislocations caused by the transition from communism—in particular unemployment and poverty—have increased the demand for social support. But the level of benefits set in the communist era is, in most of these countries, too high to be sustained without inflicting serious damage on their economies.
Meetings
The New Diasporas of Eastern Europe
Related Project: Project on East-West Relations
| Presider: | Michael Mandelbaum |
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| Speakers: | Aurel Braun, University of Toronto |
| Bennett Kovrig, University of Toronto (Emeritus) | |
| Charles King, Georgetown University | |
| Elez Biberaj, Voice of America | |
| Susan L. Woodward, The Brookings Institution |
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
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