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The Peace Corps in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics: A Return to the Original Charter
July 1, 1992
The Peace Corps has emerges as a major factor in U.S. efforts to encourage the transition away from authoritarian governments and command economies. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Peace Corps' initiatives in the former Soviet Bloc countries, according to the Corps' Regional Director (Dr. Jerry Leach) for Pacific Asia, Central Europe, and the Mediterranean. Addressing a recent Center for Naval Analyses seminar, Dr. Leach discussed the unusual national security concept behind these initiatives, how the Peace Corps has changed over the years, and current programs in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics. These efforts, he stressed, are not a departure from the practice of aiding Third World countries as much as they are a return to the Peace Corps' original charter of peace building around the world.
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EUROPEAN PERCEPTIONS AND EAST-WEST COMPETITION
August 1, 1977

This paper was written for a panel dealing with the systematic assessment of Soviet-American competition. It focuses upon one psychological dimension of this competition, perceptions of Western European leaders concerning the state of East-West tension in Europe. Its goals are to show, in a systematic manner, the course taken by these perceptions in France, the United Kingdom, and the Federal Republic of Germany, and to relate these perceptions to other elements in the system of East-West competition that has existed since WW II.

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