D. Cox - Böcker

This text looks at the Soviet, and then Russian, military withdrawal from what was East Germany. It focuses on the central role of these Soviet troops in the historic events that marked the end of the Cold War, including the East German revolution in 1989, German unification in 1990, and the final withdrawal of the troops themselves in 1994, events that were put in motion by Mikhail Gorbachev's reform effort in the USSR.

By the 1980s, UK government research laboratories were an often quirky but always essential part of the state sector. In one of the most radical experiments in the organization and management of scientific research attempted in the UK, successive Conservative governments sought to reform these laboratories by applying the market based solution of "New Public Management". "Scrutinising Science" explores and critiques that reform process by examining the laboratories'new organizational forms, the new visions of what science is for, implicit in the reform agenda, and the new forms of scientific knowledge production that have arisen as a consequence.