The region still remembers the collapse, after the end of the cold war, of the aerospace industry that once supported blue-collar workers in the area.
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There was a time after the end of the Cold War when Russia's moribund navy never ventured into the Mediterranean and its foreign policy ambitions were greatly curtailed.
Muddling a way through the maze that still persists long after the end of the cold war, dithery countries need someone or something out front.
To Mr Blair's critics this is a ridiculous amount to pay for cover against risks that, after the end of the cold war, are almost inconceivable.
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And I think the mistake we make sometimes, especially after the end of the Cold War, is to believe that the only thing that matters are economics, that all people care about is how well they're doing in their pocketbook and how comfortable they are.
"This proposal - developed by national security experts - is grounded in the fact that these tactical nuclear weapons in Europe serve no meaningful purpose 20 years after the end of the Cold War, and represent nothing but a financial cost and a security risk, " argues Matt Brown, co-founder of Global Zero.
After the end of the Cold War, the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign states.
Because 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Russian relationship has to be about more than just security and arms control.
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California's aerospace and defence industries had suffered greatly after the Soviet Union's collapse and the end of the cold war.
That deal came in, I would say in the early 90s, after the Cold War, and it ends at the end of this year, and Russia is salivating to make some money off of uranium exports.
Admiral Mullen has worked hard to reforge links with Pakistan after they splintered in the 1990s due to the end of the cold war and sanctions triggered by the country's nuclear programme.
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Mr Bush will assert that he is miles ahead of Mr Kerry on national security saving special scorn for Mr Kerry's call, after the cold war's end, to cut the budget of intelligence-gathering agencies.
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