Sep 29, 2011

Cold war - Last ten years

When the eighties began the world was in the last part of cold war conflict. After USSR invaded Afghanistan, President Carter (US 39th President), saw that the intention of peace wasnt real.
Ronald Reagan Arrived to US presidency later in 1981 and world attitude changed. But is important to take into account that after Carter's presidency the geopolitics of world changed drastically. 
Since that decade US emered as a world power infront all the countries. Japan and China began to position as powerful countries, but only in economy. 
United States of America showed its military, diplomatic and economic power to all the world. 
Last ten years of cold war showed that global geopolitics had changed and a bipolar world never will emerge again.

*'Both  changes  of  weaponry  and  changes  of  polarity  were  big  ones  with ramifications  that  spread  through  the  system,  yet  they  did  not  transform it. If the system were transformed, international politics would no longer be international  politics,  and  the  past  would  no  longer  serve  as  a  guide  to  the future. We would begin to call international politics by another name, as some  do.  The  terms  “world  politics”  or  “global  politics,”  for  example,  suggest that politics among self-interested states concerned with their security has  been  replaced  by  some  other  kind  of  politics  or  perhaps  by  no  politics  at all'.

Photo of Ronald Reagan
Took from: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/ronaldreagan

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