Ex.10 Use the words below to complete each sentence:

Integration members on behalf of

objectives influence custodian

Europe in a unipolar world

The Common Market was born into the Cold War. Its founding 1) ______ were also members of NATO and its aim of integrating the economies of Western Europe was seen as complementary to the 2) ______ of the Atlantic Alliance. That is why American presidents for half a century were happy to encourage European 3) ______. The end of the Cold War changed the dynamic of transatlantic and global relations. Unchallenged American primacy freed Washington from the constraints of alliance building and gave rise to new possibilities celebrated by neo-conservative thinkers as the "unipolar moment". The "indispensable nation" would act as 4) ______ of the general interest, exercising global leadership 5) ______ humanity and discouraging all potential rivals from even aspiring to greater 6) ______.

Ex.11 Read the text and find equivalents for the following:

1. Влечь за собой соперничество

2. Противостояние глобальным угрозам

3. Распространение оружия массового поражения

Usa thinks multipolar world harmful

The Bush Administration thinks the idea of a multipolar world is unhappy and even harmful as it may entail rivalry between the greatest powers of the world, the one similar to the "cold war". The idea was suggested by US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice at London’s International Institute for Strategic Studies. The White House has circulated the text of Rice's speech in Washington.

According to Condoleezza Rice, instead of a multipolar world, the USA suggests that other democratic countries should join their efforts on the basis of similar interests and values for solution of their common problems, including repulsion of global threats and settlement of regional conflicts. Rice says that the notion of a multi-polar world, the one that still enjoys the support of many countries, has never resulted in integration, but on the contrary it has always been "a necessary evil that sustained the essence of war but did not promote peace."

"Multipolarity is a theory of rivalry, of competing interests and, at its very worst, of competing values," she told the assembly of experts on international and security affairs. Now, Rice believes, "the rivalry theory represents a danger for solution of serious problems" such as repulsion of threats from the international terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Ex.12 Translate the following sentences into Russian:

1. We live in a new world of freer access, more extensive democracy and more porous borders.

2. The result of Mr. Gorbachev's revolution and the Soviet collapse that followed have been the end of a world divided in two ideologically - a world so fraught with tension that a chance confrontation over exposed spies or a downed airliner might spiral into nuclear war and exterminate the lot of us.

3. Europe is no longer divided into East and West. Nor is the rest of the world.

4. The more technologically advanced our societies become, the more likely it is that the danger which will bring our comfortable world to a halt is some deceptively simple weapon - a computer virus, say, that disables the program that runs the Pentagon's air conditioning system.

Ex.13 Translate into Russian and think of the title:

Common criticisms of the G8 include its limited membership, its inability to lead on the issues it was created to solve, and its inability to codify agreements and discussions that deprive its achievements of a legal basis. While all these criticisms are valid, and must be taken into account when assessing the prospects for effective G8 governance on all economic and political issues, none of them, however, have prevented the G8 from playing an important role in past international efforts at fighting terrorism. In fact, the G8 has also shown that it possesses certain attributes and structural features that allow it to act as effectively, if not more effectively, than other international institutions such as the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As Antholis notes, ‘(the G8’s) small size and the homogenous nature of its members’ political and economic systems makes it significantly more likely to lead on global issues than most international gatherings” (Antholis, 2001:22).