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Product Description: Of all the regions of the former Soviet Union, Central Asia is potentially one of the most explosive and certainly one of the least understood. It is also growing rapidly in importance to U.S. national security, commercial, and foreign policy interests: it has vast oil, gas, gold, and other resources; it has become a source and transit route for narcotics and possible nuclear and other materials; and it is affected by the fierce conflicts in Tajikistan and Afghanistan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This report contains the findings and recommendations of an independent blue-ribbon commission on the future international financial architecture. The commission was sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-chaired by Peter G...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The ongoing Asian financial crisis has graphically demonstrated the shared Western stake in the Asian economy as the United States and Europe face falling exports to Asia and rising imports from the region. In 1998, both the European and U...read more

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Product Description: The rise of international economic integration means that production globalization is often a matter of survival for corporations. As businesses globalize, American high-technology companies are taking great interest in newly industrializing countries and their pools of skilled labor...read more