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Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- 1 The National Context: Defense Spending and Conversion Policy in the 1990s -- 2 The Community Context: Development Interests and Economic Dependency -- 3 The Military Metropolis: Boosters, Bases, and Shipbuilding in Hampton Roads -- 4 The New Face of Defense: Systems Engineers and Bureaucrats in Northern Virginia -- 5 Rural Areas and Small Cities: Dependency, Adjustment, and Conversion -- 6 The State Politics of Defense Restructuring: Adjustment and Resistance -- 7 Conversion Advocacy in Other States and Localities -- 8 Transforming the Politics of Defense Conversion -- References -- Index.

Retired US Ambassador John J. Maresca draws on his personal papers to offer a first-hand account of his role in negotiating the end of the Cold War with the USSR. As a special American Ambassadorial envoy, he symbolically opened direct US diplomatic relations with each of the newly independent states from the former USSR following its dissolution. He recounts the situation in the region during that period, and how it has evolved into the situation of today. Maresca analyzes Putin's role and objectives, and concludes that the USA and the West in general must steadfastly oppose Putin's on-going effort to re-assemble MoscowÊs control over the full geographic scope of what was the USSR, starting with Ukraine