Exploding the Myth?
Subtitle: The Peace Dividend, Regions and Market Adjustment
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789058230713
Subjects: Economic theory & philosophy; Political economy; Medical / Nursing; Social Science; Sociology; Economics - General; General; Business & Economics / Government & Business; Folklore & Mythology
First sentence: The unexpected ending of the Cold War at the end of the 1980s, the collapse of Communism and the subsequent wave of economic and political liberalisation unleashed across the former Soviet Union, Eastern and Central Europe seemed to offer the world the opportunity to secure a genuine 'peace dividend' as a result of sharply declining defence budgets.