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555.8 517.9 51.2 46.4 391.5 SSA 487 361.7 47.5 41.2 297.6 MENA 684.5 963.2 15.5 15.9 162.9 LAC 1130.7 1375.5 11.4 145.1 1133.5 East Asia and Pacific 1974.3 1881.7 7.8 339.8 1286.6 Central Europe and Asia 1273.9 1509.9 10.7 73.8 1095.3 South Asia 375.9 60.7 16.7 40.3 46

short of suicidal rebellion, that resistance could take. The book lays out in riveting detail how Stalin prepared during World War II to dominate Central Europe, even as he was promising the United States and Britain that the region would be allowed to chart its own course. The Bolshevik subjugation of Russ

toward the end of the last century and into this one, many people assumed that history moves in only one direction. The tide of freedom had lifted East Asia and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Indonesia. In an era of global trade and communications, the rest of the world surely would follow.

a administration officials all tell the same story, of governments in the Middle East, in Asia and in Europe (especially EFTA00684271 Eastern and Central Europe) constantly seeking reassurances, and whenever possible, tangible evidence, that the United States is not leaving them to their fate. Are American

from them. In the ultimate irony, for all the apprehension it has unleashed elsewhere, the pivot has not produced an equal degree of reassurance in East Asia. There the promise and rhetoric of the pivot has been measured against tangible realities, like defense cuts that leave the U.S. Air Force scrappin