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Fall 2007 Written by IAJ Staff    Editor-in-Chief Olga Machkine Executive Editor Nick Schroeder Read more...   Letter from the Editor Written by Patrick J Rogers    When talking about the promise of global trade and development, focus is usually directed towards the Pacific Rim or towards Latin America, overlooked is the region where capitalism won its most impacting victory, the Central and Eastern European states of the former Soviet Union. This is a region where the promise of freedom and a better life, idealized by images of the “American Dream” energized millions in their struggle against what amounted to a foreign occupation. Since those early years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolutions, much of that hope has been dampened by the hard realities of global competition, and the re-emergence of ethnic nationalism in the region. Read more...