ECH 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Mikhail Gorbachev, Nuclear Arms Race, 1998 Russian Financial Crisis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean- Francois Ratelle

Document Summary

Chapter 4: from the end of the cold war to a new global era. Introduction: the rise and fall of the cold war. Incompatibility btw the social and economic systems of east and. West, mutual fear of ussr and usa concerned with the other"s intentions, insecurity generated by on going nuclear arms race. Both superpowers usa and ussr were always competing for influence but they had common goals, including avoiding nuclear war, prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to other powers. The end of the cold war was bound to happen given the soviet economic problems. The cold war may have not ended without mikhail gorbachev. With the collapse of the soviet union, the us remained fully engaged in international affairs. The new world order: by the 2000, us holding a dominant position in international affairs, a hyper power. Us held its unipolarity into the twenty-first century.