The JOURNAL

USA v Canada: Economics, Politics, Culture


CONTENTS
of # 10 (418), October 2004, Issue


DAVYDOV Jury Pavlovich the doctor of historical sciences, the professor, the honored worker of a science of the Russian Federation, main scientific employee éóëòáî, the full member of the Russian academy of military sciences.

THE USA: VARYING VISION OF CHANGING THREATS

How the problem of security was perceived in the United States, when G. Bush, Jr. conducted his first election campaign in 2000?

From what positions did the American foreign policy makers look at that time at the world?

When and for what reason has this vision of security failed?

What changes occur in the world in opinion of H. Kissinger - the patriarch of realpolitik?

How the disintegration of Soviet Union has affected a formation of new world system?

How do the economically advanced states expand their resource base in modern times?

And how the poor countries endowed with natural resources react at such expansion?

Whether mass armies are necessary if the world war is excluded?

What armies are necessary today?

How many states and nongovernmental organizations are involved in the international relations nowadays?

What consequences has the globalization caused regarding the state control of trans-border communications?

What does the "transparent borders" concept mean?

What contradiction in global interdependence is created by the U.S. domination?

On what logic the rationality and legality of preventive strikes on terrorists are based?

What is the essence of U.S. New Strategy of National Security?

Whether new elements of the American policy of security depend on the party affiliation of the U.S. President?

What value does the identification of threats gain in modern conditions?

What threatens the United States if they manage to realize their program of control over global processes in the field of security?



VOLODIN DMITRY A. - the candidate of historical sciences, scientific researcher of ISCRAN.

RESTRUCTURING AMERICAN MILITARY PRESENCE ABROAD

What was the main reason of restructuring the American military presence abroad (it began in the middle of 1990's) - the change of character of external threat or the "new revolution in military technology"?

What attention does the Pentagon give to accelerated trooping?

What type of transport - airborne or seaborne - is preferred?

What is a role of the Special Transport Command?

By what principle the command system of U.S. Armed Forces is organized?

Why the Asian-Pacific Region is the most important today?

How reorganization of the American military presence in South Korea is being conducted?

Whether the American military contingent on Okinawa is reduced?

What is the attitude of the Southeast Asia countries to Pentagon plans to create a network of small military bases in Australia, Singapore and Malaysia?

Why the USA so aspire to create the "Strategic Partnership" with India and how the American-Indian military cooperation is developing?

Whether it is possible to assert that an overall objective of restructuring the American military presence in áPR is to restrain China?

What event became the main cause of change in structure of the American military presence in the "Big Near East"?

What efforts are undertaken by Washington for strengthening their military presence at former Soviet republics of Central Asia?

By virtue of what reasons the "honeymoon" of Tashkent and Washington has ended?

Why the coming to power in Teheran of loyal to the United States government is so vital for the U.S.A.?

When did the messages appear in the American press, that a part of the American military infrastructure would be transferred from the Western Europe to the Eastern Europe?

In what East European countries the United States intend to create military bases and strong holds?

With what reasons the Americans emphasize a growing strategic importance of Azerbaijan for the United States?

What possibilities were opened to Americans by Cooperation Agreement in Sphere of Defense between Georgia and the U.S.A., ratified by the Georgian Parliament on March, 21, 2003?

After what event on the African continent the American attention to Africa has amplified?

Why the U.S.A. show such big interest to the countries around the Guinea gulf (Nigeria, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon)?

In spite of on anything else, whether it is possible to assert that a primary factor of restructuring the American presence abroad is the U.S. aspiration to get control over world oil?


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