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A late-night visit to the elegant, if unrefurbished, pre-revolutionary premises of Memorial in Moscow, yielded an impromptu meeting with two representatives of Agzybirlik — the civil rights movement of Turkmenistan

Following its defeat on the mainland in 1949, the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. Although the Nationalist navy was comparatively large, to many it seemed almost certain that the People's Republic of China (PRC) would attack and take Taiwan, perhaps as early as summer 1950. The Korean War began on 25 June 1950, however, and the possibility of a PRC invasion of Taiwan was countered when on 27 June President Harry S. Truman ordered the Seventh Fleet to "neutralize" the Taiwan Strait. Mao Zedong at first postponed and eventually canceled altogether his planned invasion of Taiwan. ; https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/usnwc-newport-papers/1037/thumbnail.jpg

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 Review and Theory -- 1. Buffer States: A Geographer's Perspective -- 2. Buffer States: The Issue of Sovereignty -- 3. Southern Africa: Buffer States Without a Conventional Buffer System -- 4. Buffer Systems of Middle America -- Part 2 Region and Country Case Studies -- 5. Eastern Europe: The Buffer Effect of a Cordon Sanitaire -- 6. The Albanian Lands: Continuity and Change in a Buffer Region -- 7. The Geo-Political Demise of Lebanon: Consequences of a Political and Military Buffer -- 8. Asia's Pivotal Buffer States -- 9. The History of Afghanistan As A Buffer State -- 10. Korea, A Buffer State -- 11. Uruguay: The Quintessential Buffer State -- 12. Buffer States: Outlining and Expanding Existing Theory -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Untersucht werden Kontexteffekte bei Befragungen, insbesondere der Einfluß der Fragenreihenfolge auf das Antwortverhalten. In einem Experiment wird nachgewiesen, daß Fragen, die als 'Puffer' zwischen den eigentlichen Fragen gestellt werden, das Antwortverhalten erheblich beeinflussen, unter Umständen sogar die Kontexteffekte in die entgegengesetzte Richtung verlaufen lassen können. (psz)