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Meeting with the presidents of Latin America at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad in April 2009, Barack Obama pledged to recast relations with the region. At the halfway point in his first term, however, there is little to distinguish Obama from his predecessor George W. Bush. The promise of Obama's rhetoric in Trinidad failed to materialize in concrete policies and, in retrospect, may have been a way to deflect attention from the fact that his administration had no plans for fundamentally altering U.S. policy toward Latin America. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright holder.]

Discusses Israel's use of military force in the West Bank to counter the Palestinian intifada, with emphasis on regional security in the Middle East and response of the international community and the US.

Aus sowjetischer Sicht

Transport brings significant social, economic, spatial and environmental effects, and thus is an important factor in the sustainability of society and the economy. The subject of the work is the sustainable development of transport, meaning socially and economically justified activities related to the creation of conditions and the implementation of environmentally friendly and human-friendly practices of facilities, equipment and other solutions that perform the functions of movement. The purpose of the study was to present the theoretical basis for the sustainable development concept, derived from the idea of sustainable development - sustainable transport, and to present goals that are to be achieved by improving sustainable transport, with the potential to contribute to a specific target by means of instruments divided into categories: economic instruments, technological instruments, legislative instruments, organizational instruments, market instruments, educational instruments.