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After twenty years of procrastination, Moldova has resolutely chosen the path of Europe. On 27 June, the former Soviet republic, populated by 3.6 million people, signed an association agreement with the European Union, together with an agreement for 'deep and comprehensive free trade'. As might be expected, the Russian neighbor who, in turn, sought to convince Chisinau to join a customs union under its umbrella has hardly appreciated. The choice of Moldova was all the more difficult as Ukraine, punished for having said 'no' to the Eurasian Union Putin, had just lost the Crimea and the Donbass region saw driven on the path of separatism controlled from Moscow. Sanctions were quick: from autumn 2013, Moscow decreed an embargo on wine and in June 2014, in the wake of the signing of the Association Agreement, on the Moldovan fruit. But the Kremlin has another trump card: Transnistria. This small secessionist republic not recognized by the international community, populated by 500,000 inhabitants, broke away from Moldova after the war called 'civil' in 1992. It is one of those post-Soviet separatist entities which Russia uses to preserve its sphere of influence. When Moscow annexed Crimea via a referendum parody March 16, 2014, the Transnistrian power expressed the wish to see the republic attached to the Russian Federation. But this threat, like all the pressure on Chisinau for two decades by the separatist entity, have finally proved against-productive: Moldovan leaders have come to understand that they probably never would recover this territory and that future of their country was in the West. Adapted from the source document.

We welcomed with great enthusiasm the announcement of the signing of the decree 'On the recognition of the republic of Crimea' and, more generally, all that Vladimir Putin made to integrate two new topics - and the Crimea the city of Sebastopol - has the Russian Federation. The return of the Crimea to Russia is a fair decision based on the will of the people of Crimea and all Russians. The right of peoples to self-determination should be a fundamental principle of international relations. This right must be respected if we wish to establish a just world order and on. And that's exactly what just happened in the Crimea. In this tense period, we must welcome the assistance that the Russian Federation has made to the people who wanted to join. On the territory of the peninsula, its action was decisive in ensuring peace and stability and to prevent any escalation of violence. Adapted from the source document.

The financial crisis underlines the real nature of French and European vulnerabilities, which are more economic and social than military and security-oriented. It might therefore be profitable to start the next parliament with a renewed defence and security posture, concentrating on strategic restraint and a more compact military structure.

Die Arbeit entstand im Rahmen einer 1986 in Auftrag gegebenen Machbarkeitsstudie über das "soziale Marketing" von Empfängnisverhütung. Als Psychotherapeutin leitete die Autorin den Teil der Untersuchung mit qualitativem, psychosoziologischem Ansatz: die hier dokumentierten und analysierten Gruppen- und Einzelgespräche mit Frauen im gebährfähigen Alter, Gegnerinnen und Befürworterinnen der Empfängnisverhütung, ihre bewussten und unbewussten Motive sowie ihre Erfahrungen mit traditionellen und modernen Verhütungsmitteln, Beratungsstellen, Ärzten usw. (DÜI-Cls)

The scholarly literature on homosexual practices in non-Western countries has sometimes been criticized for its deny of the libidinal dimension of such acts, which was neglected to the benefit of symbolic or instrumental functions. This has especially been the case for the literature on homosexual practices in Africa, which have only rarely been considered under the angle of desire or feelings. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2003 & 2008 in Bamako among men having homosexual practices, this article shows how homosexual desire is understood & expressed in this context. Furthermore, the text explores the local meaning of homosexual desire & its impact on the identity of these men, in a society where homosexuality is largely considered as a highly reprehensible Western behavior. Adapted from the source document.

What was the role of Jean Monnet's transnational networks in the negotiations between Americans and Europeans that followed the signature of the Euratom Treaty of March 1957? More precisely, how was the question of the control of fission materials in Europe negotiated between the US and the Euratom Community? It seems that Jean Monnet, the White House and the State Department detailed a common tactic of obfuscation of the European project, masking the military and strategic stakes. The choice of that tactic of was determined in part by American internal opposition, notably from the Atomic Energy Commission and Congress, in the transfer of control, knowledge, and power from the American to the Europeans. Contrary to the neorealist analyses of European integration, which insist on the weak influence of international networks, this article emphasizes their importance, which, in the history of Europe, was exercised less in the intergovernmental negotiations of the European Treaties, than in the transatlantic between the US and Europe, notably in relation to the nuclear question. Adapted from the source document.

Der Prozeß, der zur Machtübernahme Kabilas führte, war abhängig von drei Faktoren, die von seinem Willen unabhängig waren: die politischen Verwerfungen nach dem Genozid in Ruanda ab 1994, die zunehmenden Spannungen in Nord- und Süd-Kivu nach dem Einströmen einer großen Zahl von Hutu-Flüchtlingen, die sich im Grenzgebiet ansiedelten, und die Implosion der staatlichen Strukturen Zaires. Eine zentrale Rolle spielte die nach 1994 an die Macht gekommene Regierung in Ruanda. Einen Hinweis auf den geringen Einfluß Kabilas gibt die Tatsache, daß in den von der Rebellion eroberten Gebieten zunächst militärische Ziele dominierten, wie die Rekrutierung von Soldaten und das Aufbringen von Finanzmitteln. (DÜI-Wgm)