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"African Americans in St. Louis enjoyed greater autonomy and opportunity than those in urban areas of the South and East. Slaves in the city set legal precedent by filing hundreds of freedom suits, often based on the prohibition against slavery. This book explores the role of blacks in the history of St. Louis through the Civil War"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 The 1992 Project -- I THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 2 European Integration: Gloomy Theory versus Rosy Reality -- 3 Delivering the Goods: The EC and the Evolution of Complex Governance -- II THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE 1992 PROJECT -- 4 A People's Europe: Citizen Support for the 1992 Project and Beyond -- 5 Asymmetrical Integration in the European Community: The Single European Act and Institutional Development

As the Reagan presidency draws to an end, speculation grows as to its legacy in various areas, from domestic economics to international politics. The current study takes as its focus the Reagan legacy in the area of national security policy: specifically, the possible effects of Reagan's defense spending and Soviet policies. Using the global political-economic simulation model GLOBUS, a set of Reagan-like budgeting and foreign policies are formally implemented within the model and the resulting changes in behavior systematically evaluated. Two versions of this scenario are examined. In the first, it is assumed that the Reagan policies represent a permanent shift in the American position, while in the second case these policies are seen as a temporary aberration, remaining in effect only as long as Reagan is in the White House. Beginning with the political effects of these policy changes on Soviet-American relations and the national security of the two superpowers, the study then expands its focus to changes in the budgeting behavior of the United States and the impact on the domestic economy. These changes in American national security policy reverberate strongly throughout the political-economic system, though their effects are neither as uniformly positive as the supporters of these policies would claim nor as consistently negative as the critics profess.