The historic Cold War, although formally concluded by 1991, continues to widely and deeply influence, even shape the contours of, way we think talk about geopolitics geoeconomics in present time. Foreign policy professionals, journalists, scholars, producers consumers of popular culture readily turn tropes, frames, mental models derived sometimes very literally from this grand-historic episode....

MORRIS DICKSTEIN POSES his recent study of post–World War II American fiction Leopards in the Temple (2002) as a corrective to the by now standard tendency to emphasize the cold war in accounts of this period. But while Dickstein takes the critics of cold war culture to task for what he sees as their oversimplification of both art and politics, he concurs with them on at least one major point. ...

This challenge to many of the cherished dogmas of genetics and evolution is fascinating reading. Lindegren's comments concerning the suppression of views which challenge the underlying assumptions of scientific research are particularly poignant in view of his difficulty in getting this book published, even though he is an outstanding geneticist. The first chapter, "The Game of Science," and th...

Although the Cold War has ended, thousands of workers involved in nuclear weapons production are still living with the adverse health effects of working with radioactive materials, beryllium, and silica. After a series of court battles, the U.S. government passed the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Act in October 2000 to financially assist workers whose health has been compromised by thes...

after the cold war, the concept of international security underwent a modification. among the most important components of such a transformation, the consolidation of ‘environmental security’, a topic in international security, can be taken into account. environmental security deal with threats that are not only the unintentional result of social and economic activities but are very slow in...

Khan-Magomedov’s publication Pioneers of Soviet Architecture (1987, English translation) provided scholars outside the socialist world with an introduction to what we now know as Russian Constru...