Nuclear Aspects of Military Policy and Russian-American Relations

Civilian Trust in the Military, Organizational Culture, and Tactical Nuclear Weapons Policy: Russian Strategic Ambiguity†

The nature of both strategic and tactical nuclear weapons and their role as instruments of deterrence require that certain details be revealed to potential adversaries and others shrouded in the greatest degree of secrecy possible. Russian tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) policy is at the very extreme of the ambiguity part of the spectrum, which has put into question whether Russia has a TNW poli...

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...

- 01694 - 0 - Politics and the Russian Army : Civil – Military Relations , 1689 – 2000 Brian

This book is about Russian soldiers and the tsars, Communist Party bosses, and presidents they have served. The historic exploits of the Russian and Soviet armies, which crushed Napoleon and Hitler, are well known. This book tells a different, lesser known story about Russian soldiers: the role they have played in domestic politics. As the process of Russian democratization lurches along – one ...

Assertiveness, Compliance, and Politeness: Pragmatic and Sociocultural Aspects of ‘Brazilian English’ and 'American English'

This paper showed the results of a qualitative investigation that looked into intracultural communication between Brazilian teachers and students of English, and intercultural communication between American teachers and Brazilian students of English. The aims were to identify and describe contextualization cues used by both Brazilian and American speakers of English, and to connect these cues w...

Changing Concepts of Security: the Implications for Civil-Military Relations and Defence Policy in Brazil