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One of the greatest challenges facing the global community at this juncture is the management of economic, political, and security changes taking place throughout Eastern Europe. In laying this claim, I do not wish to underplay the importance of other problems besetting the world such as poverty, regional military conflicts, AIDS, and the environment. However, inasmuch as the postwar global framework has been dominated to a large extent by the divisive relationship between east and west, the revolutions in Eastern Europe are yielding unprecedented opportunities for better managing our globe.
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van Brabant, J.M. (1990). PETs and the global economic system. In: Remaking Eastern Europe — On the Political Economy of Transition. International Studies in Economics and Econometrics, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0689-1_11
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