Soviet Union & Terrorism

The breakup of the Soviet Union has played a significant role in forming world events over the past two decades. One of the biggest threats to peace and stability is the numerous nuclear, biological, chemical, and information warfare weapons that have become available in the region because of the collapse of the Soviet Union. As one analyst for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars maintains, "After a decade of turbulent political, social and economic change, a region increasing diverse and fragmented emerges in Central and Eastern Europe," (East 2004, 3). While the U.S., Britain and other nations have sought to democratize and stabilize the economies and leaderships of nations in Eastern Europe, such stabilization is far from complete.

The enormous poverty, fragmentation and diversity, and resistant leadership in many nations in Eastern Europe continue to thwart goals for economic and political stability in the region. One of the biggest threats to such stability continues to be the selling of weapons by Eastern European countries to organizations and countries promoting terrorism. While the world has been safer from nuclear war because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war, there are a number of East European countries responsible for putting weapons into the hands of terrorist states and organizations. Two reasons for this are hostility toward the new Russian regime and poverty in many countries wher

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