During the Cold War, Finland's foreign policy was based on official neutrality between the Western powers and the Soviet Union, while simultaneously stressing Nordic cooperation in the framework of the Nordic Council and cautious economic integration with the West as promoted by the Bretton-Woods Agreement and the free trade treaty with the European Economic Community.

* Jones, Eric L. " The History of Natural Resource Exploitation in the Western World ," Research in Economic History, 1991 Supplement 6, pp 235 – 252

In June 1955, Messina was the location of the Messina Conference of Western European foreign ministers which led to the creation of the European Economic Community.

The country, coming back to international politics among Western democratic powers, joined the European Economic Community ( which has later constituted the European Union ), the United Nations, NATO, the G7 and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

" Notes on Serfdom in Western and Eastern Europe ," Journal of Economic History March 1973 33: 86-99 in JSTOR

Railways and the Economic Development of Western Europe, 1830 – 1914 ( 1983 )

## Lynne Yelich, Minister of State ( Western Economic Diversification ) ( October 30, 2008 )

" A Reconsideration of the Microfoundations of Monetary Theory ," Western Economic Journal, 6 ( 1 ), pp. 1-8 ( press +)

Economic and political reality in Western Europe would soon force the dismantling of the European colonial empires, especially in Africa and Asia.

* The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, 1973 ( with Robert Thomas ).

* Moroney, J. R. ( 1967 ) Cobb-Douglass production functions and returns to scale in US manufacturing industry, Western Economic Journal, vol 6, no 1, December 1967, pp 39 – 51.

The term integration had formerly been used to designate the activities of Western regional organizations such as the European Economic Community.

* Western Economic Diversification Canada, a Canadian government agency

* Fowke, Vernon C. " National Policy and Western Development in North America " Journal of Economic History, Vol.

* United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia ( overlaping membership )

* Western Economic Diversification Canada, ( French: Diversification de l ' économie de l ' Ouest Canada ), a Canadian government agency

* Thobhani, Akbarali ( 2002 ), Western Sahara Since 1975 Under Moroccan Administration: Social, Economic, and Political Transformation, Edwin Mellen Press ( ISBN 0-7734-7173-1 )

Vladimir Lenin and his New Economic Policy were both failures tainted by Western thought.

Yellen serves as president of the Western Economic Association International and is a former vice president of the American Economic Association.

There has been a revitalization of Weber's interest, particularly in a New York Times article, published in June 8, 2003, where the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released an article that seems to confirm that " the experience of Western Europe in the past quarter-century offers an unexpected confirmation of the Protestant ethic.

The standard reference for the development of the steamboat is Steamboats on Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History by Louis C. Hunter ( 1949 ).

Related regional development posts include Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Minister of Western Economic Diversification.

He was a member of Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal government, serving in cabinet as Canada's tenth Minister of Western Economic Diversification and as Minister of State for Sport.

He was appointed to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's cabinet on January 15, 2002, serving as Secretary of State for both Western Economic Diversification and Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

He was named Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Minister of State for Sport on July 20, 2004.

The Minister of Western Economic Diversification () is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who also serves as the chief executive of Western Economic Diversification Canada.

The current Western Economic Diversification Minister is Rona Ambrose, with Lynne Yelich as the Minister of State ( Western Economic Diversification ).

She serves as the Minister of Public Works and Government Services, Vice-Chair of the Treasury Board Cabinet committee, Minister of State for Status of Women Canada and Minister of Western Economic Diversification.

In the previous Parliament, she was Canada's Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Minister of Western Economic Diversification and President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

She was shuffled out of that position on January 4, 2007, and appointed Minister of Western Economic Diversification, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and President of the Privy Council.

On January 4, 2007, Ambrose moved from environment to become Minister of Western Economic Diversification, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs as well as President of the Queen's Privy Council.

* Western Economic Diversification Canada -- Minister of Western Economic Diversification

The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.

On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

This type of farmer-labour co-operation became common throughout Western Canada, leading to the creation of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada in the 1920s, and the more durable Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Farmer-Labour-Socialist ) in Calgary, Alberta, in 1935, precursor to Canada's modern-day social democratic party, the New Democratic Party.

As well Alberta is connected to the TasnCanada pipeline system ( natural gas ) to Eastern Canada, the Northern Border Pipeline ( gas ), Alliance Pipeline ( gas ) and Enbridge Pipeline System ( oil ) to the Eastern United States, the Gas Transmission Northwest and Northwest Pipeline ( gas ) to the Western United States, and the McNeill HVDC Back-to-back station ( electric power ) to Saskatchewan.

As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.

The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest.

Its position as the Asia-Pacific gateway resulted in the settlement of the province by people of Asian descent, making it one of the most diverse and multicultural areas of Western North America, as well as helping start trade, cultural and diplomatic relations between Canada and the Asia-Pacific region.

The Bauhaus had a major impact on art and architecture trends in Western Europe, the United States, Canada and Israel in the decades following its demise, as many of the artists involved fled, or were exiled, by the Nazi regime.

1880 saw the Great North Western Telegraph Company established to connect Ontario and Manitoba but within a year it was taken over by Western Union, leading briefly to that company's control of almost all telegraphy in Canada.

There are also commercial deposits being actively mined in the Northwest Territories of Canada, Siberia ( mostly in Yakutia territory ; for example, Mir pipe and Udachnaya pipe ), Brazil, and in Northern and Western Australia.

Canada will not accept blood from a person who has spent more than six months in a Western European country since January 1, 1980.

Only in Western Canada is the term Associates degree used as in the United States.

The phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon for most of Canada are similar to that of the Western and Midland regions of the United States.

In Prince Edward Island, where no comprehensive legislation exists, following the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Western Canadian Shopping Centres Inc. v. Dutton, 2 S. C. R.

Thompson mapped and established trading posts in Northwestern Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Western Canada ; including Kootenae House and Saleesh House ; the first trading post west of the Rockies in Montana extending North West Company fur trading territories.

Other markets include Canada, Western Europe, and Japan.

In May 2010 Dartmouth joined the Matariki Network of Universities ( MNU ) together with Durham University ( UK ), Queen ’ s University ( Canada ), University of Otago ( New Zealand ), University of Tübingen ( Germany ), University of Western Australia ( Australia ) and Uppsala University ( Sweden ).

The language is also spoken by Greek emigrant communities in many countries in Western Europe, especially the United Kingdom and Germany, in Canada and the United States, Australia, as well as in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and others.

Its network of trading posts formed the nucleus for later official authority in many areas of Western Canada and the United States.

Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto.

Two notable Western composers for the kora are Brother Dominique Catta and Jacques Burtin ( France ), who wrote most of these scores, though composers like Carole Ouellet ( Canada ), Brother Grégoire Philippe ( Monastère de Keur Moussa ) and Sister Claire Marie Ledoux ( France ) contributed with original works.

According to Agassiz the provinces that the different races were created in included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).