A decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, visa requirements between the United States and Russia remain mired in cold war practices that still make applications for travel between the two countries cumbersome and expensive.
But behind the scenes, one senior American official said, "it was clear this would be the only way". There was discussion inside the administration of similar swaps during the Cold War, a practice moviegoers have been reminded of recently in "Bridge of Spies," about the negotiations to win the release of Francis Gary Powers.
Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to national-security restrictions.
He says the moral principle of just punishment outweighs what he considers to be the antiquated, Cold War-era practice of diplomatic immunity.
These clippings call special attention to the Cold War-era practice of firing gay State Department employees because they were presumed to be security risks.
His publications on cold war design politics and practices include a monograph, Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), and essays in numerous collections and museum catalogues.
Under John Paul II, the Vatican bank — the Institute for Religious Works, or I.O.R. in Italian — was a crucial conduit to the East Bloc during the cold war, and its murky practices gave rise to speculation about the source of some funds.
Despite the nearly total rearrangement of the international security landscape since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, the rise of Islamic terrorism and the spread of nuclear materials and technology to volatile nations like Pakistan, North Korea and Iran, the Defense Department remains enthralled by cold war nuclear strategies and practices.
If we do not bring sustainable values to our banking systems and ecosystems, we are going to end up more "unfree" than if the communists had won the cold war — because without sustainable practices, repeated crises in the market and Mother Nature will impose more limitations on our way life than anything the Soviets ever could have.
How did the flow of persons, texts, and ideas from the Soviet Union influence the dynamics of American culture during the Cold War, through institutions, academic practices, theoretical approaches and methodologies, and cultural forums ranging from the Slavic Review to the New Yorker?
