I am currently running for the Arbitration Committee. My candidate statement and beliefs on the role of the committee can be found at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2004/Candidate statements#172

I've been an active user since December 2002, ranked #61 on the most recent list of list of most active Wikipedians by number of edits on all namespaces (falling down from #54 after not contributing very actively for the past month). I've also been an administrator since May 2003. Lately I have become interested in policy discussions; on that note I am a founding member of Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards.

E-mail I can be reached at Sokolov47@yahoo.com

Contributions Some of the articles/series on which I've done substantial work (as a main author)

International

• 1973 energy crisis
• Bandung Conference
• Berlin Blockade
• Bretton Woods system
• British Empire
• Centrally planned economy
• Cold War series (Cold War (1947-1953) and its origins, Cold War (1953-1962), Cold War (1962-1991))
• Franco-U.S. relations
• Great Depression
• Imperialism in Asia
• New Imperialism
• Origins of the New Imperialism
• Scramble for Africa

North America

• Dollar Diplomacy
• History of the United States series (History of the United States (1789-1849), History of the United States (1849-1865), History of the United States (1865-1918), History of the United States (1918-1945), History of the United States (1945-1964), History of the United States (1964-1980), History of the United States (1980-1988))
• Neoconservatism (United States)
• New Deal
• Origins of the American Civil War
• Platt Amendment
• Queen Anne's War
• Roosevelt Corollary

Eastern Europe and Russia

• All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion (to be completed)
• Consumer goods in the Soviet Union
• Economy of the Soviet Union
• First Chechen War (mixed with U.S. Library of Congress Country Study public domain text)
• History of post-Soviet Russia
• History of the Soviet Union
• Russian constitutional crisis of 1993
• Russian presidential election, 1996
• Soviet Union
• Gennady Zyuganov

East Asia

• History of the People's Republic of China
• Hongwu Emperor of China
• Hu Jintao
• Jiang Zemin
• Kim Jong-il
• Li Peng
• Li Ruihuan
• Ming Dynasty
• Wang Anshi
• Wen Jiabao
• Zeng Qinghong
• Zhu Rongji

Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa

• Che Guevara
• History of Brazil series (Empire of Brazil, History of Brazil (1889-1930), History of Brazil (1930-1945), History of Brazil (1945-1964), History of Brazil (1964-present))
• History of Chile (1973-1978 section)
• History of Mexico (revolutionary, post-revolutionary era)
• Robert Mugabe
• Efraín Ríos Montt
• Saddam Hussein
• Getúlio Dornelles Vargas
• Zimbabwe

Western and Central Europe

• Jacques Chirac
• History of Germany series (German Confederation, German Empire)

To do Write/rewrite/expand later

• All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion (finish)
• Expand History of Brazil (1945-1964)
• User:172/Populist movement sandbox (sandbox)
• Luis Muñoz Marín (continue expanding)
• Bretton Woods system (finish)
• Boris Yeltsin
• Washington Consensus
• History of Africa

Other external Links:

As you can see, I was going for variety. Linking these sites to my user page in no way implies support.

United States

• The American Empire: Pax Americana or Pox Americana? (a September 2004 Monthly Review article by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney)
• "The Underpinnings of the Bush Doctrine" By Thomas Donnelly (From the American Enterprise Institute)
• "Pax Americana is over" (by Immanuel Wallerstein)
• Whitehouse.org (anti-Bush parody of Whitehouse.gov)
• Bush & Cheney 2004 official site for the 2004 Presidential campaign.
• "U.S. Hegemony: Continuing Decline, Enduring Danger" by Richard B. Du Boff
• "The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century" by Robert Gilpin
• Fareed Zakaria "No Way to make friends" "Bush could surely have arranged to meet in Baghdad with troops from allied countries who are also fighting and dying in Iraq" 1
• "The American Creed: Does It Matter? Should It Change?" "Summary: Seymour Martin Lipset explains why the United States is exceptional. Michael J. Sandel blames its individualistic tradition for the country's ills and says America should return to the New England town square. But it isn't exceptional, and it shouldn't return." 2
• "George Kennan speaks out about Iraq" (Yes, George Kennan, 98, is still alive.)
• Sample excepts from David Harvey's The New Imperialism "The New Imperialism mounts a stunning indictment of our present institutions of power, while offering hopeful insights about how these institutions could be changed.' -Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics" 3
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy The Reagan Administration
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy Vietnam
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy Cold War
• Documents Relating to International Relations Theory
• Documents Relating to Iraq-US Relations, 1904-present
• Documents Relating to Global Economic Issues
• Documents Relating to the Middle East
• Documents of the Interwar Period
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--1898-1914
• Documents on the International Energy System
• Is Iraq Another 'Vietnam'?, Monthly Review, June 2004.

Economic development and international affairs

• Future Hegemonic Rivalry between China and the West? (Erich Weede, Journal of World-Systems Research (1995), Volume 1, Number 14)
• "Economic Development: An Analysis of Malaysia"
• United Nations Human Development Indicators 2001
• "WHAT I LEARNED AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS." by Joseph Stiglitz (from The Insider)
• Joseph Stiglitz "Lessons and Challenges in Transition" (Transition in Russia, Eastern Europe)
• "Commanding Heights" with Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
• Interview with John Kenneth Galbraith
• "THE CASE FOR REDISTRIBUTIVE LIBERALISM" An interesting look at the East Asian economies.
• "Malaysia's economy" (from the BBC)
• Patrick Bond. 1999 "Global Economic Crisis: a view from South Africa," Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol V, 2, 1999, 413-455.
• "The Resilience of Dependency Effects in Explaining Income Inequality in the Global Economy: A Cross- National Analysis, 1975–1995"
• "Globalization and the Future of Democracy"
• "Globalization:A World-Systems Perspective"
• Dependency Theory: An Introduction (Vincent Ferraro, Mount Holyoke College)
• Global Debt and Third World Development By Vincent Ferraro and Melissa Rosser From: World Security: Challenges for a New Century, edited by Michael Klare and Daniel Thomas (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994), pp. 332-355

Third World

• Dependency Theory: An Introduction (Vincent Ferraro, Mount Holyoke College)
• "Land Reform and Poverty Eradication in Africa Towards a New Agricultural Paradigm"
• "Capitalist Development and Democracy in South America" by Evelyne Huber Stephens
• "Neoliberalism and the creation of 'virtual democracy' in the Global South" Stefan Andréasson March, 2002
• Kurt Weyland, "THE POLITICS OF NEOLIBERAL REFORM IN LATIN AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES: ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, PERU, AND VENEZUELA." Paper for panel on Democracy and the New Market Model in Latin America XXI International Conference Latin American Studies Association Chicago, September 24-26, 1998

China

• People's Daily
• Xinhua
• The Overseas Young Chinese Forum ("OYCF")
• Future Hegemonic Rivalry between China and the West? (Erich Weede, Journal of World-Systems Research (1995), Volume 1, Number 14)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
• Chinese Communist Party 16th Party Congress (Leadership profiles from the BBC)
• "Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping"
• "Russia's Fall, China's Rise? - Comparing Transitions of Russia and China (Part I)" (Published by the Overseas Young Chinese Forum)
• "Russia's Fall, China's Rise? Comparing Transitions of Russia and China (Part II)" (Published by the Overseas Young Chinese Forum)

Russia

• U.S. Library of Congress Country Study - Russia (public domain text)
• Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center
• Johnson's Russia List
• Carnegie Moscow Center (affiliated with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
• "Russia in NATO?" Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University
• Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., "What Went Wrong in Russia?: The Feudalization of the State," Journal of Democracy (April 1999), p. 47-53. (an analysis of the state of democratic transition in Russia by Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., a leading specialist in Russian politics published in the Journal of Democracy)
• "Lessons and Challenges in Transition" Seminar (analysis from Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz)
• Up for Debate: Shock Therapy: Bolivia, Poland, Russia. Same Policies-Different Results From the PBS series "Commanding Heights"
• Joseph Stiglitz (Stiglitz interview with The Progressive)
• "Whence Reform? a Critique of the Stiglitz Perspective."
• "What I Learned at the World Economic Crisis" (The New Republic, April 17, 2000)
• "THAT SUBSIDING RUSSIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH" (Natalia RAISKAYA, Yakov SERGIYENKO and Alexander FRENKEL, Economics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, from Johnson's Russia List, December 2002)
• Excerpts from Globalization and Its Discontents By Joseph Stiglitz (from the World Bank Transition Newsletter)
• "Russian people paid the price for shock therapy" by Joseph Stiglitz (Times Online June 22, 2002)
• Paul J. Saunders, "Why "Globalization" Didn't Rescue Russia" (Paul J. Saunders is a specialist in U.S.-Russian relations and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations)
• Up for Debate: Shock Therapy: Bolivia, Poland, Russia. Same Policies-Different Results From the PBS series "Commanding Heights"
• Up for Debate: Privatization: Who Wins? Russia's Reform Compromise (interviews with Yegor Gaidar, Grigory Yavlinsky, Anatoly Chubais, Joseph Stiglitz, and Jeffrey Sachs from the PBS series "Commanding Heights")
• "The Emperor Exposed: Neoliberal Theory and De-modernization in Postcommunist Society"
• "TRANSITION WITHOUT TRANSFORMATION: RUSSIA'S INVOLUTIONARY ROAD TO CAPITALISM" (Michael Burawoy University of California, Berkeley)
• "Reagan and the Russians"
• "Russia's Fall, China's Rise? - Comparing Transitions of Russia and China (Part I)" (Published by the Overseas Young Chinese Forum)
• "Russia's Fall, China's Rise? Comparing Transitions of Russia and China (Part II)" (Published by the Overseas Young Chinese Forum):17, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)
• The political economy of Stalinism: evidence from the Soviet secret archives / Paul R. Gregory
• Andre Gunder Frank, "What Went Wrong in the 'Socialist' East?"

Imperialism

• Empire? What Empire? Imperialism and British national identity c. 1815-1914 by Professor Bernard Porter
• J.A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective by Professor Peter Cain
• The Empire Strikes Out: The "New Imperialism" and Its Fatal Flaws by Ivan Eland, director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute. (an article comparing contemporary defense policy with those of New Imperialism (1870-1914)
• Marxism and The New Imperialism by Alex Callinicos, John Rees, Chris Harman, and Mike Haynes
• The New Imperialism
• Modern History Sourcebook

Misc

• AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF GAME THEORY by Paul Walker
• Karl Marx Quotations
• Modern History Sourcebook: Summary of Wallerstein on World System Theory
• "When Cultures Collide" Samuel P. Huntington
• PROTESTANTISM AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM Max Weber
• Read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations online
• Modern History Sourcebook Benito Mussolini's "What is Fascism?" (1932)
• Samuel P. Huntington - The Clash of Civilizations
• "The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analysis" by Immanuel Wallerstein
• leftist parties of the world
• Ido Oren, "The Subjectivity of the 'Democratic' Peace: Changing U.S. Perceptions of Imperial Germany," International Security, Vol. 20, no. 2 (Fall 1995)
• The End of Slavery and Serfdom Good chronicle of key dates and events in modern history.