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Abstract
Although Albania emerged from the Second World War as an appendage of Yugoslavia, the Albanian Communist regime soon turned against Yugoslavia and forged an alliance with the Soviet Union. However, after the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev launched a campaign of de-Stalinization, Albania's alliance with the USSR steadily eroded and collapsed altogether by the early 1960s. The PRC under Mao Zedong emerged as the new patron for the only Stalinist regime left in Europe. This article draws on recently declassified archival materials to reassess how and why Albanian Communist leaders shifted from one alliance to another. Both ideological and security considerations shaped the decision-making process. The article sheds light not only on Albania's Cold War history but also on the history of Eastern Europe and the Soviet bloc.

Inbar reviews 'Alliance Politics' by Glenn H. Snyder.

NATO is a divided alliance, the Georgia crisis has reinforced splits which were developing over Afghanistan. So can an a la carte alliance work? Adapted from the source document.

Sofka reviews 'Alliance Politics' by Glenn H. Snyder.

THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THE INSTITUTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF NATO ENLARGEMENT. SCHOLARLY TRADITIONS ARE EXAMINED IN THE CONTEXT OF POLICY ASPECTS OF NATO ENLARGMENT INCLUDING MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA, TRANSACTION COSTS, CONSOLIDATING DEMOCRACY, AND THE NATO-RUSSIA RELATIONSHIP. THE ESSAY SUGGESTS THAT THE VERY ASPECTS THAT MAKE NATO AN APPEALING INSTITUTION FOR MEMBER STATES MAY DECLINE IN VALUE AS A RESULT OF NATO ENLARGMENT.

THIS ARTICLE TAKES UP THE QUESTION OF WHETHER NATO IS STILL NEEDED IN ITS PRESENT FORM, AND, IF CHANGES ARE REQUIRED, HOW WILL THEY AFFECT THE ECONOMIC SECURITY AND STRATEGIC CONCERNS OF THE ALLIANCE. THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT AT SOME POINT NATO MUST REFLECT, SPECIFICALLY IN ITS ECONOMIC POSTURE, THE CURRENT BALANCE OF ECONOMIC POWER AMONG ITS MEMBERS. PREFERABLY THE SHIFT WILL COME THROUGH AN INCREASE IN WESTERN EUROPE'S EFFORT RATHER THAN A DECLINE IN AMERICA'S; BUT EITHER WAY IT WILL RESULT IN A MORE EQUAL RELATIONSHIP.

A contribution to a roundtable on immigration & African Americans responding to Stephen Steinberg's "Immigration, African Americans and Race Discourse" (2005). It is contended that American progressives should strive to unify African Americans & immigrant groups to challenge the prevailing racial hierarchy within the contemporary US. After asserting that US society will successfully incorporate immigrant groups & that certain immigrant communities have been delineated as model minorities, Steinberg's contention that African Americans' socio-economic prospects have been damaged by immigration policy is backed. Rather than allow immigration policy to reinforce the existing racial hierarchy, it is stressed that American progressives should strive to establish multiethnic working-class alliances that would advocate African Americans' & immigrant groups' socio-economic advancement. It is concluded that such coalitions are needed to confront & ultimate defeat the established racial hierarchy in US society. J. W. Parker

"The Strategic Alliances Fieldbook: The Art of Agile Alliances is for technology and professional services practitioners and executives seeking faster value from their partnerships as traditional alliances are changing rapidly in form and tempo. Digitising customer channels and internal operations has been a long-running initiative for most companies, and the global Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the urgency and budgets associated with the digital transformations that technology and professional services companies support. The Strategic Alliances Fieldbook compiles a century of the authors' experience of leading joint businesses to solve the problem of how to go fast and avoid common issues that delay alliances. The reader will get a detailed analysis of professional services companies and technology companies and how the dynamics of their collective culture and operating model are shaped when working in partnership. The book provides a 'Blueprint': a library of methods that includes 15 templates which can be applied to accelerate any alliance. The book also includes 19 case studies to illustrate real-life situations. This book is particularly relevant to executives involved in partnership initiatives, specifically in professional services and technology firms, and can be read in conjunction with The Strategic Alliance Handbook by Mike Nevin"--