№ 21 Download full issue DOI 10.17721/2521-1706.2026.21 CONTENTS HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES Mariia Kudasiuk. Internal debates in the U.S. political establishment on the formation of NATO (1947 – 1949) 7 Svitlana Polovyk. The policy of the administration of president George H. W. Bush on volunteerism in the USA 21 Vladyslav Faraponov. Did president Trump increase the revolving door lobbying phenomenon in the U.S.? 29 Vladyslav Solomianyi. Socio-economic and administrative consequences of the 2008 financial crisis in the United States 39 USA AND UKRAINE Marharyta Lymar. Constructing and reconfiguring a symbolic border: linguistic framing of Ukraine in U.S. presidential discourse (2022 – early 2026) 48 Alla Kyrydon, Serhiy Troyan. The Russian-Ukrainian war of 2014 – 2026 within the framework of the Correlates of War research project 63 Taras Piatnychuk. Ukraine in U.S. public and political thought during the First World War 71 CANADA Oleh Mashevskyi. The Ukrainian diaspora in the USA and Canada: the struggle for the release of dissident Valentyn Moroz (based on KGB documents of the Ukrainian SSR) 84 Viktoriia Pilkevych. Cooperation between Canada and UNESCO in the field of cultural and natural heritage preservation 98 Olga Sukhobokovа. Modernization of Japan in the Meiji period in the scientific heritage of the Canadian historian and diplomat E. Herbert Norman 106 USA AND EASTERN COUNTRIES Thamer A. J. H. Al-Bdyry. From the Gulf War to the contemporary era: a longitudinal analysis of U.S. policy and its socio-political impact in Iraq (1991 – 2026) 118 AMERICAN STUDIES CHRONICLES Eduard Kuzmenko. III International Academic Conference «Ukraine and the United States of America: Experience and Prospects of Cooperation» (18 April 2026) at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 126