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Helsinki Revisited

By: John Maresca

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The Helsinki Final Act of the 1975 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) set the rules for legitimate changes in national frontiers: They must be accomplished by peaceful means and agreement. Together with the Charter of Paris for a New Europe of 1990, the Helsinki Accords paved the way for a peaceful coexistence of the West and the Eastern Bloc. The Paris conference ended the Cold War, issuing a “Joint Declaration of Twenty-two States,” in which all member states of NATO and the Warsaw Pact affirmed they are no longer enemies. The Helsinki process, continuing in the form of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), resulted ultimately in the prevailing of pluralist democracy, market economy, and personal freedom. Today, it may serve as an example for how to deal with the current situation in Ukraine and crises in other regions of the former Soviet Union. John J. Maresca was a senior U.S. diplomat at the center of this long negotiating process. He was sent as the first, and only, US Ambassador to the newly-independent states after the break-up of the USSR-the American Ambassador to the “Near Abroad”-and started a negotiating process to try to end the one conflict in the region at that time. With this book, he presents his personal memoirs of how it was possible to reach the Helsinki Accords and following agreements?a story of astonishing change and evolution which is as eminently relevant today as it was 40 years ago.

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The Unknown Peace Agreement

By: John J. Maresca

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The Unknown Peace Agreement

By: John J. Maresca

The “Joint Declaration of Twenty-two States,” signed in Paris on November 19, 1990 by the Chiefs of State or Government of all the countries which participated in World War Two in Europe, is the closest document we will ever have to a true “peace treaty” concluding World War II in Europe. In his new book, retired United States Ambassador John Maresca, who led the American participation in the negotiations, explains how this document was quietly negotiated following the reunification of Germany and in view of Soviet interest in normalizing their relations with Europe. With the reunification of Germany which had just taken place it was, for the first time since the end of the war, possible to have a formal agreement that the war was over, and the countries concerned were all gathering for a summit-level signing ceremony in Paris. With Gorbachev interested in more positive relations with Europe, and with the formal reunification of Germany, such an agreement was — for the first time — possible. All the leaders coming to the Paris summit had an interest in a formal conclusion to the War, and this gave impetus for the negotiators in Vienna to draft a document intended to normalize relations among them. The Joint Declaration was negotiated carefully, and privately, among the Ambassadors representing the countries which had participated, in one way or another, in World War Two in Europe, and the resulting document -- the “Joint Declaration” — was signed, at the summit level, at the Elysée Palace in Paris. But it was overshadowed at the time by the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe — signed at the same signature event — and has remained un-noticed since then. No one could possibly have foreseen that the USSR would be dissolved about one year later, making it impossible to negotiate a more formal treaty to close World War II in Europe. The “Joint Declaration” thus remains the closest document the world will ever see to a formal “Peace Treaty” concluding World War Two in Europe. It was signed by all the Chiefs of State or Government of all the countries which participated in World War II in Europe.

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3838216326

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You're Not Stupid! Get the Truth

A Brief on the Bush Presidency

By: William John Cox

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You're Not Stupid! Get the Truth

A Brief on the Bush Presidency

By: William John Cox

A wake-up call to the lies and crimes of Bush and the neo-cons - in war, voting, media, taxes, morals, health, schools, laws, liberties... "Brutally honest, well-researched strongly recommended." - Midwest Book Review. This Brief on the Bush Presidency highlights the yawning gap between Bush rhetoric and reality, marshalling the key facts on issues in the news, plus the background played down by mainstream media. Bush's favorite for Iraqi head of state, Ahmed Chalabi, a convicted felony embezzler and a CIA asset, will turn over Iraq's oil industry to campaign contributors like Cheney's Halliburton. Saddam Hussein got his start as a CIA asset too. By now everyone knows about the Iraq WMD hoax- but not the evidence of an even scarier 9/11 cover-up. "We have to look the truth in the face, take a deep breath, and draw the line to defend our values as a nation," says author Cox. If information is power, he delivers the information that is a source of empowerment.

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Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States

An Interpretive History

By: John Lewis Gaddis

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Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States

An Interpretive History

By: John Lewis Gaddis

From the capricious reign of Catherine the Great and Alexander I to the provocative leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the author concentrates on the interplay between interests and ideologies in the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, in an even-handed, non-ideological narrative.

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0075572583

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You're Not Stupid! Get the Truth

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Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States

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