POLB80H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: European Security Strategy, Baltic States, Liberal Democracy
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Chapter 4: from the cold war to the world economic crisis. 68 the economic crisis that tore through the world"s financial system in 2009 leaving long-term problems. Ending ww1 (1919), ww2 (1945), cold war (1989) Cold war international order was left between 2 super orders. Ussr and us never directly engaged in armed hostilities. 69 globalization a notion that had barely been used before 1989, communism"s collapse, opened closed planned economies. The new world order which the us had privileged position hyperpower". 70 some say other great powers would in time emerge to balance the us. Some say countries enjoy special advantage in every sphere, us hegemony would last into 21st century. Us remained a superpower without a mission. Europe concern managing the new enlarged space that had been created as a result of the events in 1989. They were the real beneficiaries of what happened. States of eastern europe had the right of self-determination.