POLI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Humanitarian Intervention, Counter-Terrorism, Al-Qaeda
12 Dec 2017
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In 1991, after the cold war had ended, us president george h. w. bush spoke of a. The us - ussr superpower rivalry would be replaced with a system whereby states**** The new world order had encountered its rst true test in august 1990, when iraq invaded. The following year, the un authorized an international coalition of states led by the us to liberate kuwait (operation desert storm). The persian gulf war (1991) was short and successful in liberating kuwait, with very few coalition casualties. In 1993, the european community transformed into the european union, where people, goods and capital could move freely between member states without borders. But despite these developments the positive mindset of the 1990s was dampened by major tragedies in three countries: War broke out in yugoslavia in 1991, when slovenia and croatia seceded. When bosnia-herzegovina attempted to secede in 1992, a civil war erupted between.
