World Politics articles from January 1993

World Politics archives from January 1993

Exit, voice, and the fate of the German Democratic Republic: an essay in conceptual history.
January 1, 1993... Es gibt wenig Menschen, die sich mit dem Nachstvergangenen zu beschaftigen wissen. Entweder das Gegenwartige halt uns mit Ge- walt an sich, oder wir verlieren uns in die Vergangenheit und suchen das vollig Verlorene... wieder...

The politics of nationalism in Quebec.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION THE nationalist movement in Quebec is one of the most powerful national movements in the developed West. It has weathered more successfully the disappointing results of a referendum on the national question than either...

Institutions and collective action: the new telecommunications in Western Europe.
January 1, 1993... TECHNOLOGY has transformed telecommunications in ways that were the stuff of science fiction twenty-five years ago. New technologies and services have triggered changes in markets, government regulation, and international regimes. One of the...

Ideas, institutions, and the Gorbachev foreign policy revolution.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION IT has become almost a commonplace in both academic and popular analyses that the Gorbachev revolution in foreign and security affairs represented a triumph of knowledge and reason over dogmatic Leninist ideology.(1)...

Divergent learning and the failed politics of Soviet economic reform.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION DECISION-MAKING theory and organizational theory both argue that state leaders increase their search for new information in conditions of crisis.(1) As Ikenberry and Kupchan explain: "Crisis creates an environment in...