The JOURNAL
USA v Canada: Economics, Politics, Culture
CONTENTS
of # 10 (#394), October 2002, Issue
Foreign Policy Debates in the U.S.A.: Searching for Global Strategy
When did political scientists start talking about "the occurrence of outlines of the Bush's doctrine"?
What "drawbacks" of the democratic administration global strategy did the Republicans play up during the pre-election presidential campaign of 1999-2000?
What new international status for the U.S.A. has the Republican administration tried to achieve since their coming to White House?
What have the events of September, 2001 shown from the point of view of Stable One-Polarity?
Whether America can realize her global strategy without support of other countries?
What three approaches to the American global strategy were generated in the U.S. political-academic community after September, 2001?
Who in the G.Bush's nearest encircling can be classified as "rigid hehemonists"?
Who has put forward the Doctrine of Freedom foreign policy concept and what is its essence?
What parallels can be drawn between the Freedom Corps proposed by G.Bush and the Peace Corps of the J.F.Kennedy's times?
How has the position of Russia been appraised in the U.S.A. since the beginning of the international antiterrorist operation?
At the fulfilment of what conditions Russia can be admitted in Western community?
Whether the USA will manage at carrying out their foreign policy to keep reasonable balance between the traditional Messianism, the aspiration to individual leadership, and the internationalism?
This theme is analyzed by Shakleina Tatyana A. - Candidate of Historical Sciences, Chief of Sector, ISCRAN.
NEW REVOLUTION in MILITARY ART
and REFORMING of U.S. ARMED FORCES
What priority tasks were defined in the 2001 Annual Report of Secretary of Defense to the U.S. President and the Congress?
What a role is allocated today to the nuclear weapon in the system of U.S. national security?
On what strengthening of military power and with what purpose has been the military construction reoriented in the United States?
What does the Revolution in Military Art mean?
What primary factor predetermines the U.S. successes in present revolution in military art?
How the abbreviation ó4I of the newest system of command is deciphered?
What perspective military directions of technical developments are reffered to the "emerging technologies"?
How should the new triad of U.S. strategic nuclear forces be formed according to the concept stated by Department of Defense in the Nuclear Posture Review Report (Washington, 9.01.2002)?
What is the essence of radical revision of American strategic doctrines, which has been taking place during last two years?
What does the Preventive Defense mean?
What is the Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) and how under its conditions the Battlefield is transformed into the Fighting Space"?
What is the essence of the Global Battle concept?
What are the Air Expeditionary Wings, or the Aerospace Expeditionary Wings and Forces?
What a role does the U.S. military-political management allocate to the Naval Forces and the Marine Corps?
Of what three blocks does the program of U.S. Army transformation consist?
Whether the occurrence in the beginning of 21st century of nonconventional threats to U.S. security can level off their efforts on reforming the Armed Forces?
These questions are highlighted by Korsakov Georgy B. - Candidate of Political Sciences, Scientific researcher, IMEMO.
U.S.A. and E.U. in New Century: Allies or Rivals?
(conclusion)
What are the distinctions between the European and the American approaches to international problems?
Where should the causes to be sought of present aggravation of political contradictions between two regions?
How deep are present contradictions between the United States and the European Union, in what measure do they threaten the unity of Western civilization, and what configuration can they give to world political situation in the beginning of the 21st century?
Since what a moment have the American-European relations become a political reality?
What American president and when put forward the so-called Declaration of Interdependence and supported the idea of a Trans-Atlantic Alliance?
What step and of what European figure should be regarded as the first precedent of opposition between the U.S.A. and E.E.C.?
What are the basic distinctions between the Euro-American and the Euro-Atlantic relations?
By virtue of what reasons does the European Union challenge the world order, the main ideologist of which have been the United States?
Why in the beginning of the 21st century should Europe be perceived as the most serious rival of the United States?
Why instead of traditional term the Superpower Europeans even more often name the United States the Hyperpower?
Whether the U.S. military superiority can protect today the Americans from attempts on the part of those who fanatically hate the model of social order which the United States enforce to the other world?
What geopolitic illusion leads today the U.S.A. to failure after failure on a world scene?
Who - the United States or the European Union - behaves today more responsibly at the solving of world problems?
How it is possible to position optimally the U.S.A. and E.U. in world political affairs of the 21st century?
Answers to these important questions are given by Inozemtsev Vladislav L. - Doctor of economic sciences, Director of Center of Researches of Postindustrial Society, Free idea - XXI Magazine Deputy Editor-in-chief.
Following materials are also published in this issue:
- Travkina N.M. Fiscalization of U.S. Domestic Politics
- 60 Years of Russian-Canadian Diplomatic Relations (Scientific Conference)
- Speech by Ambassador Rodney Irwin.
- Korneyev A.V. Russian Oil Imports to the USA: American Assessments
- Nitoburg E.L. Russian Immigration's Contribution into American Science, Technology and Culture
- Book review: V.B.Supyan. The American economy: new realities and priorities of XXI century (V.A. Speechkin)
- Puzanov V.I. Instructive century of cult firm " Harley - Davidson "