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or “global politics,” for example, suggest that politics among self-interested states concerned with their security has been replaced by some other kind of politics or perhaps by no politics at all'.
The MIT Press Journals. Available in the Link. http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/waltz_kenneth_v25n1.pdf
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| Took from: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/ronaldreagan |
