{"id":612,"date":"2025-02-21T10:43:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/internationalhistory20c\/?post_type=content&p=612"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:43:30","slug":"chapter-19-the-end-of-the-cold-war-and-the-new-world-order-1980-2000","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/internationalhistory20c\/students\/chapter-19-the-end-of-the-cold-war-and-the-new-world-order-1980-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 19: The End of the Cold War and the \u2018New World Order\u2019, 1980\u20132000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chapter 19: The End of the Cold War and the \u2018New World Order\u2019, 1980\u20132000<\/h1>\n\n\n
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The Cold War came to a sudden and unexpected end in the early 1990s. This chapter examines the multiple causes of the demise of the post-1945 international system by focusing not only on the superpower conflict itself but also on the broader developments that undermined the Cold War as the overriding framework of international politics. The collapse of the Cold War was to a large extent a result of the Third World\u2019s rejection of the need to see every issue from the increasingly arcane context of the clash between capitalism and socialism. The dissolution of the Soviet Union did, however, leave the United States as the unchallenged superpower of the 1990s. This was partly illustrated in the Gulf War of 1990\u201391, where the United States led a broad coalition of countries that would have been inconceivable in previous decades. In contrast to the Cold War, when America was involved in a fearsome rivalry with the Soviet Union, the United States appeared to enjoy a \u2018unilateral moment\u2019 during the last years of the twentieth century with no serious rival within the international system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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