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"Der Termin für die Europäische Währungsunion (EWU) rückt näher. Zwar gibt es nicht nur in Deutschland (noch immer) keine Euphorie für Europa, jedoch vermittelt die Mehrheit der politischen Eliten in ganz Europa den Eindruck, daß die EWU bis zum Ende des Jahrzehnts termingerecht kommen wird. Die Schaffung eines einheitlichen europäischen Geldes in der Form des Euro ist in erster Linie ein politisches Projekt. Nationales Geld und Nationalstaat gehören unmittelbar zusammen, da die Steuerungsmacht über das nationale Geld ein wesentliches Element staatlicher Souveränität darstellt." (Autorenreferat)

The price of the relative success of the Soviet system, 1917-1990, was the stunted development of Russian alternative society. By the mid-1960s, the objective goals of Soviet society -- independence, military & political equilibrium, & (to a point) modernization -- had been achieved. Because Soviet society demanded subsequent economic development, qualitative growth of market factors in economic management, reorientation of the economy toward individual consumption, & fuller integration of science, production, & economics were quietly incorporated. Thus, as the global situation changed, Russian alternative society was unable to offer any social democracy, revolutionary, socialist, participative, or anticapitalist alternatives to renewal, capitalism, or globalization. M. Maguire

IN NO FOREIGN POLICY ARENA WAS PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN'S PERSONAL INFLUENCE MORE PRONOUNCED THAN IN POLICY TOWARD THE SOVIET REGIME, AND IN NO OTHER AREA WAS HIS JUDGMENT SO ROUNDLY CRITICIZED BY "EXPERTS." HOWEVER, REAGAN WAS WILLING TO STICK WITH HIS POLICIES IN THE FACE OF DETERMINED OPPOSITION FROM POWERFUL OPPONENTS, AND HIS POLICIES SUCCEEDED. BY THIS STANDARD, HE MUST BE REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PRESIDENTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, PARTICULARLY IN FOREIGN POLICY.