America might adopt a mercantilist trade policy and a relatively isolationist foreign policy. This approach goes against the ...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as the reunification of Germany, the Warsaw Pact had little reason to exist. These countries left the pact and reformed their governments ...

The Soviet Union (USSR) wanted to keep control of Eastern Europe to create a buffer zone between itself and Western Europe. The Warsaw Pact meant that the USSR controlled Hungarian foreign policy.

The Soviet Union’s collapse 32 years ago led to rapid change, economic collapse, and violence. In Tajikistan, that violence slid rapidly into civil war. Five experts explore the legacy of the ...

Shortly before midnight on August 20, more than 200.000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops from Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany(Romania and Albania refused to take part) invaded ...

Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War III between the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact on the side and the United States and its NATO allies on the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is copying Soviet ... Union had at the beginning of the 1980s." However, other economists say Russia doesn't appear to be moving toward a Soviet-style collapse ...

"NATO now is a purely geopolitical project on colonizing the territory that became unclaimed after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact [Organization] and the break-up of the Soviet Union.

play Gorbachev and the 'Iron Lady' Gorbachev struck up a frank and fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation.

"The last year or two has seen a boom, and it's getting publicity," says Mateusz Urban, a senior economist at Oxford Economics in Warsaw ... after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk over the weekend once again criticized the European Union’s Pact on Migration and Asylum and doubled down on his refusal to comply with the legislation.