the us foreign policy processes in the middle east, in the post world war ii period, have always brought about security challenge, danger and crisis, in the region. all us presidents have experienced grave security crisis in this geopolitical area. there also exists many indications of distrust of the current foreign us policy exercised in the middle east on the part of middle eastern citizens....

Nearly 25% of U.S. men aged 55 or older served in combat, yet its impact on aging is unknown. The relationship of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms to combat exposure was examined in 1,210 veterans of World War II (WWII) and the Korean War, who were participants in the Normative Aging Study. Over 54% of WWII and 19% of Korean veterans reported combat experience. The relationship bet...

The reports and studies of large numbers of cases of traumatic haemothorax, both during the 1939-45 war and at its termination, were of value from two points of view: they were immediately reflected in the treatment of patients, and they provided a record of developing treatment, which will enable future generations of physicians and surgeons to start where those of 1945 left off, should the ne...

This article aims to present the motives of geopolitical restructuring South-East Europe at end World War II with an emphasis on relations between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. In this context, author first identifies interwar interests four involved parties, namely: Yugoslav Bulgarian communist leaderships, political representatives Soviet Union United Kingdom. second part, describes development id...

Unlike most European countries, the French experience with immigration predates the post-World War II period. France in the nineteenth century saw itself as a haven for persons in search of freedom or persecuted for political reasons in their own countries. With industrialisation and growing labour needs, France became a destination country for labour migrants, especially from Belgium and Italy...

This study considers how the views of the public at large may be used to define the poverty income level. The basic data for the study come from routine Gallup surveys conducted since the beginning of the post-World War II period that asked representative samples of adults in the United States to estimate the smallest amount of money that a family of four needs to "get along." Additional Gallup...

This paper investigates changes in the long-horizon behaviour of stock prices. Using a time-varyingparameter framework, we find that any pre-World War II tendency for mean reversion disappearsduring the post-War period. Furthermore, when we account for changes in the market risk premiumdue to dramatic shifts in pre-War return volatility, the full sample evidence for mean reversion i...