I wish to acknowledge with thanks the support of much of the research and writing of this project by the Gorbachev Foundation of North America. I would like to thank my graduate student assistant Matthew Winters for his dedicated and superb research assistance and Michael H. Armacost, Yun-han Chu, Paul Evans, Anthony Jones, Byung-Kook Kim, and Daniel I. Okimoto for their helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this article. But whatever remaining local, regional, and global mistakes are my own.Google Scholar

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