six founding members
:
Belgium
,
France
,
Italy
,
Luxembourg
, the
Netherlands
and
West Germany
.
Japan’s “peace constitution” – The constitution was drawn up under the
Allied
occupation
that followed
World War II
and was intended to replace Japan's previous
militaristic
and
absolute monarchy
system with a form of
liberal democracy
. Currently, it
is a rigid document and no subsequent amendment has been made to it since its adoption
Perestroika – was a political movement for reformation within the
Communist Party of
the Soviet Union
during the 1980s (1986), widely associated with
Soviet
leader
Mikhail
Gorbachev
and his
glasnost
(meaning "openness") policy reform. The literal meaning of
perestroika is "
restructuring
", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and
economic system. Perestroika is often argued to be the cause of the
dissolution of the
Soviet Union
, the
revolutions of 1989
in
Eastern Europe
, and the end of the
Cold War
Reasons for collapse of Soviet Union –
Controversies over Cold War –
EU – EU is a
politico
-
economic
union of 28
member states
that are
primarily
located in
Europe

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