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The early 1990s were the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and great shifts in other socialist countries. The North American Free Trade Agreement was newly signed. Iraq’s army invaded Kuwait and then retreated, burning oil fields

Thinking in Systems

Donella H. Meadows & Diana Wright

Evidently this trade fired the imagination of the secret services, since the CIA eventually set up a triangular operation to sell weaponry to

Blowback

Michael Lüders

He persuaded the Americans to fund the construction, on the Nile, of the Aswan High Dam, a project crucial to Egyptian economic development. He also decided, though, to buy arms from Czechoslovakia. These two decisions set off the first great

The Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis

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