From Helsinki to Belgrade
From Helsinki to Belgrade

Author: Vladimir Bilandžić

Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 3899719387

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After the heads of state and government of almost all European countries, the USA, and Canada signed the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Helsinki on August 1st, 1975, little was heard about the CSCE process. However, far away from the headline-grabbing meetings between the leading politicians of the USA and the USSR as well as the Geneva negotiations on disarmament, the Helsinki process proved to be an efficient framework for the East-West negotiations. The inconclusive Belgrade CSCE Meeting of 1977-1978 - after six months the delegations were only able to agree on a brief final document - was nevertheless a significant milestone for the CSCE process itself: negotiation rules were drawn up, interpreted, negotiated and re-negotiated. The contributions to this volume offer solid insights into the follow-up meeting in Belgrade in 1977/78, the Cold War, and in particular the CSCE process.

Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War
Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War

Author: Sarah B. Snyder

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-06-20

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1139498924

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Two of the most pressing questions facing international historians today are how and why the Cold War ended. Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War explores how, in the aftermath of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, a transnational network of activists committed to human rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe made the topic a central element in East-West diplomacy. As a result, human rights eventually became an important element of Cold War diplomacy and a central component of détente. Sarah B. Snyder demonstrates how this network influenced both Western and Eastern governments to pursue policies that fostered the rise of organized dissent in Eastern Europe, freedom of movement for East Germans and improved human rights practices in the Soviet Union - all factors in the end of the Cold War.

Cybernetics and Systems
Cybernetics and Systems

Author: Sergio Barile

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0429944616

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Society is now facing challenges for which the traditional management toolbox is increasingly inadequate. Well-grounded theoretical frameworks, such as systems thinking and cybernetics, offer general level interpretation schemes and models that are capable of supporting understanding of complex phenomena and are not impacted by the passage of time. This book serves the knowledge society to address the complexity of decision making and problem solving in the 21st century with contributions from systems and cybernetics. A multi-disciplinary approach has been adopted to support diversity and to develop inter- and trans-disciplinary knowledge within the shared thematic of problem solving and decision making in the 21st century. Its conceptual thread is cyber/systemic thinking, and its realisation is supported by a wide network of scientists on the basis of a highly participative agenda. The book provides a platform of knowledge sharing and conceptual frameworks developed with multi-disciplinary perspectives, which are useful to better understand the fast changing scenario and the complexity of problem solving in the present time.

Neither War Nor Peace
Neither War Nor Peace

Author: Hugh Seton-Watson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-06

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1000535282

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This book, first published in 1960, is an analysis of the turbulent and revolutionary world politics of the 15 years following the Second World War. It examines the main themes of revolutionary forces, totalitarianism and imperialism, including, in detail, the social questions that lie behind them.

List of Serials Currently Received in the Library of the United States Department of Agriculture as of July 1, 1957
List of Serials Currently Received in the Library of the United States Department of Agriculture as of July 1, 1957

Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Library

Publisher:

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13:

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This list includes all serials, printed and processed, received by the Library of the United States Department of Agriculture, on a current basis, as of July 1, 1957. Only dailies or administrative use are omitted. A serial is defined as a publication that is issued either regularly or irregularly over an unspecified period of time. For the purposes of this list, a serial was considered current if it had been received in the Library at any time since January 1954, unless it was known to have ceased.