Wherever a government of checks and balances subject to the popular will as opposed to the dictates of undemocratic regimes has determined the allocation of national resources and the direction of foreign policy, military forces are maintained at modest levels and the peace is not threatened by territorial or ideological ambitions.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: US-Soviet Relations

Wherever a government of checks and balances subject to the popular will -- as opposed to the dictates of undemocratic regimes -- has determined the allocation of national resources and the direction of foreign policy, military forces are maintained at modest levels and the peace is not threatened by territorial or ideological ambitions.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: US-Soviet Relations

The inventory was made on two levels, national and regional-local according to the existing administrative divisions, and combined the territorial principle with classification according to ethnic and religious background as these two factors often coincided.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage