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the Cold War began (and Stalin’s invasion of Denmark in 1945 could very well mark that moment). But it was not entirely born out of his paranoia. The Cold War was a continuation of the hot war that came to a close with the defeat of Germany and the submission of Japan, a new chapter based on the simmering conflict between the East and the West, a power play between the two dominant forces. Stalin’s paranoia did not wholly bring it about, though his paranoia increased with his recognition of the… Continue Reading...
American Policing on the World Stage
The American “policing” role developed because of the Cold War, but it was primarily a means for protecting and assisting economic interests for itself and its allies as illustrated by recent events as well as earlier ones. When George H. Bush called for the Gulf War in order to push Iraq out of Kuwait, he cast Hussein in the role of “villain” and Kuwait as the “victim” in his address to Congress (Bush, 1991). Colin Powell (2003) would do a similar stunt a decade later in the events leading up to the post-9/11 invasion of Iraq, which was… Continue Reading...
did the end of the Cold War impact perceptions of ordinary crime as well as crime spending?
The Cold War allowed Americans to focus their attentions on a simple bogeyman: Communism. With communism framed as “public enemy number one,” politicians could easily market themselves to Americans as being the best leader to protect them from the fearful red menace. The Cold War also enabled a relatively bloated defense budget. When the Cold War ended, there was a sort of reverse power vacuum. Now without its primary nemesis, the United States needed a new enemy to… Continue Reading...
have been exerting political influence and achieving economic growth.
In the book, Brzezinski discussed the post-cold war geopolitical strategy, and emphasized on American global supremacy. Theoretically, America continues dominating the political and economic arena employing different strategies to minimize strategic risks. For example, the United States divided Eurasia into four regions in order to dominate the global systems. According to Brzezinski, (1998), sources of the U.S. economic growth are its democratic and open political institutions as well as an open market system that allow the country to boost its international political and economic reputations.
Despite the current U.S. dominance, the task facing America statesmen is… Continue Reading...
and political revolts. On the face of it, an abrupt decrease was apparent in global arms trade following the Cold War. But if one delves deeper, one will find several reasons suggesting the weapon proliferation issue hasn’t dwindled similarly. One factor is, decreased measured weapon flow has accompanied a seeming growth in arms sales via the global black market that is not officially recorded.
Furthermore, a mere analysis of total value fails to account for the dangerous move in reasons underlying demand. The major part of the weapons proliferation during the Cold War wasn’t in preparedness for a real war; rather it can be regarded as the biggest Potlatch… Continue Reading...
1. Explain why the Vietnam conflict was an episode of the cold war.
The United States became involved in the Vietnam conflict due to fears that communism was going to spread throughout Asia, potentially upsetting the global balance of power. When Ho Chi Minh showed an interest in developing a communist form of government for the nation newly liberated from France, the United States became involved as one of the earliest but most significant episodes in the Cold War. Losing in both Korea and Vietnam caused the United States to become even more vigilant and paranoid throughout the Cold War.
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the West to work together to establish the peace. Throughout the Cold War, NATO was more of a symbol than an actual military alliance. It was not until the Cold War ended that the first joint military NATO operations were conducted. The first was in 1990 and the second in 1991—Anchor Guard and Ace Guard were NATO’s response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. The Gulf War that followed, based on Bush’s trumpeting of the same kind of unsubstantiated claims that his son would make with U.S.’s second Middle Eastern intervention, was the first demonstration of NATO’s force[footnoteRef:2]—i.e., NATO as a wing… Continue Reading...
was accompanied by a post-Cold War intermission in the US. It can be better understood now as a transitional era marked by insecurity, with the nation struggling to ascertain its role within a global system having no one existential threat remaining.
The decades-long Cold War’s culmination meant that military dissuasion was not so relevant to America anymore. Terrorist acts (e.g., 9/11) were more pressing threats to the nation’s security. For safeguarding the nation and its citizens against such attacks, the DHS (homeland security department) was instituted by the US Congress in the year 2002. The… Continue Reading...
law became a fun, social experience and criminals were lionized rather than feared.
Q4. How did the Cold War impact the Civil Rights Movement? In what ways did the war help? How did it hurt?
Although World War II and the subsequent Cold War clearly led to a loss of life and many devastating incidents in the lives of innocent Americans, it did have some positive benefits for the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. As African-American servicemen made a substantial contribution to the war effort, the nation was effectively shamed into granting some measures of equality, including integration of the armed forces. The Cold War was also an… Continue Reading...
Cold War, East and West were cut off from one another by the Wall that the Soviets placed to keep the West from interference. The West Germany was supposed to be open and free and President Kennedy went there to talk about the symbol of the wall in Berlin. He said that it was a symbol of the closed-off nature of Communism. After WWII, Germans had to confront the role of Germany for its crimes in the war as according to the Nuremberg Trials. This was difficult for Germans on… Continue Reading...
through human rights protection and free trade against wishes of the states, which created them.
Additionally, the post-cold war discourse in international relations offers various approaches to understanding the international system. The constructivist theory has been identified as one of the examples of international relations theories revealing the dynamic of world politics. The constructivist's theory focuses on the materialists and neorealism that reveals on the distribution of power that includes economic capabilities, and military forces. (Hurd, 2008). Constructivists theory also explains the state behavior and balance of power between states. (Nugroho, 2008).
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coming Cold War, the onset of which was very much in the minds of world leaders immediately following the carve-up of Europe between the unlikely Allies (capitalists in the West, Communists in the East), also played a part in the declaration: the West was anxious to promote itself as the standard bearer of liberal ideals—freedom, democracy, equality, brotherhood, human rights—i.e., the natural rights of man, as defined by the Enlightenment Era thinkers like Rousseau and Locke, whose ideas had come to be enshrined in modern Western politics. [2: Rousseau, Social Contract,… Continue Reading...
Cold War was the narrative and the Hollywood industry helped to develop the script.
Of course, the Cold War was scripted by the deep state as… Continue Reading...
much as possible and promoting market-oriented economies, also referred to as capitalism. The US has also included other issues that during the cold war were at the periphery of their considerations like the issue of human rights, global environment and international peacekeeping have all become central to the US foreign policy especially towards the third world nations.
On the other hand, the Soviet Union was deeply concerned with ensuring that as many nations as possible in the third world adopt the communist policies and socialism as a way of their governance. However, it was noted that the Soviet Union adopted a rather reluctant approach to engaging in direct military engagement in the… Continue Reading...
capitalist incentive for space travel, the exploration of space fell to governments. The biggest leaps were made during the Cold War, when space exploration was a proxy for the scientific might of the world’s two major superpowers. The incentive was not monetary, but more ideological in nature, and therefore space was worth the cost. As the Cold War started to fade, so too did space exploration. However, in recent years, there has been a resurgence in space exploration. A number of nations now participate in different ways, making contributions either to research on space travel, or on the International Space Station, or otherwise. All the world’s major powers make… Continue Reading...
to the symptoms of the Cold War that followed WW2 in the 1950s and 1960s (Laing 10). The Youth Culture was made up of war babies and baby boomers: they wanted emancipation from the culture that had fostered the war era, which seemed to still be in play, even in the 60s and 70s, with Vietnam drawing a lot of criticism from the hippie movement and the youth movement in America.
In physical terms, the Beatles were very young when they made it big. They were just barely in their mid-20s at the peak of… Continue Reading...
have increased since the onset of WWII. It increased further when the cold war ended even as many expected a peace bonus. The localized wars were initiated by armed groups that are organized by people who held grievances against their own governments or against other organized armed groups within the same states with guerilla war tactics. They employed such methods as taking hostages, bombings and vanquishing populations from their settlements. In these scenarios, the common laws of war as emphasized in international war are blurred and ignored. Displaced persons and casualties are alarmingly many. Usually, the combatants demand compliance of expulsion from… Continue Reading...
Arab Emirates and Japan
In an era when American influence in the world is waning, the bipolarity of the Cold War years is being replaced by regional partnerships that are mutually beneficial for all stakeholders. Indeed, one important international partnership that has emerged over the past half century has been between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Japan, with both countries expanding their diplomatic presence in each other’s capitals and investing heavily in exports, most especially oil and gas to Japan with the UAE importing electronics, vehicles and various types of machinery from Japan. Moreover, international analysts predict that this strategic partnership will continue to expand for the foreseeable… Continue Reading...
impacts, supply chains, etc. which have posed challenges to the commercial logistical setting. Simultaneously, military logisticians saw the Cold War era and associated strategies, a whole new kind of enemy, evolving military employees and sustained combat maneuvers within Third-World settings (Rutner, Aviles & Cox, 2012). Both groups have encountered tough choices, in addition to being pressured to review and perfect their corresponding logistical processes. But the question of whether both have been growing at the same rate remains to be answered.
Contemporary corporations are required to simultaneously achieve reduced costs, superior quality and superior logistics performance. They are facing increasing pressures to modify their offering to address changing… Continue Reading...
steady development of new equipment appears to have slowed down in recent times – and most particularly post the Cold War years. There is ample evidence to this effect. For instance, in the words of Mark Welsh, former Air Force Chief of Staff General, “airplanes are falling apart… they’re just flat too old” (O’Brein, 2016, p. 137). It is also important to point out that Army General John Campbell has in the past warned that although the U.S. military personnel is largely adaptive, a sudden crisis would effectively expose some inherent weaknesses as far as degradations are concerned (Laslie, 2015). The B-52 bomber, for instance, has not been fully… Continue Reading...
