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ing democracy; only transparent, efficient, honest government. They want a leader who can make the sclerotic system function better. Yet, much like the Soviet Union in its final years when power passed from one old man to another—Brezhnev to Andropov to Chernenko—in quick succession, the Saudi royal family con

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helped unleash change. For decades, th= Middle East was locked in place by the Cold War and petro politics. The U=S. supported countries opposed to the Soviet Union and rich in oil—Persian Gulf monarchies, Jordan and Egypt s=arting in the mid-1970s—while the Soviets supported their friends— Syri=, Iraq, Libya at

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ir Putin, the Russian President and autocrat, had a plan for the winter of 2014: to reassert his country's power a generation after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He thought that he would achieve this by building an Olympic wonderland on the Black Sea for fifty-one billion dollars and putting on a dazzling t

18:55:51 +0000 2 March, 2014 Article l. The New-Yorker Putin Goes to War David Remnick Article 2. NYT Making Russia Pay? It's Not So Simple Peter Baker Article 3. The Washington Post Ukraine crisis tests Obama's foreign policy focus on diplomacy over military force Scott Wilson Article 4. NYT

applies an updated version of the Cold War strategy of containment. Just as the United States resolved in the aftermath of World War II to counter the Soviet Union and its global ambitions, Obama is focused on isolating President Vladimir Putin's Russia by cutting off its economic and political ties to the out

pril 20 update Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:18:09 +0000 20 April, 2014 Article'. The Boston Globe Obama focuses updated Cold War approach on Putin Peter Baker Article 2. National Post Vladimir Putin's Middle Eastern harvest Conrad Black Article 3. Ny r America's Last Task in Kabul Vali R. Nasr Artic