“Through That Gap the Future Might Pour”: Dreaming the Post-Cold War World in The Golden Notebook

2015 ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Cornelius Collins
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Future

Differences in temporal reasoning

Focaal ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (66) ◽  
pp. 25-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Ringel
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Temporal Reasoning ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Temporal Complexity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Temporal Flexibility ◽  
Shrinking City

Hoyerswerda, Germany's fastest-shrinking city, faces problems with the future that seem initially unrelated to the past and yet excite manifold conflicting accounts of it. The multiple and conflicting temporal references employed by Hoyerswerdians indicate that the temporal regime of postsocialism is accompanied, if not overcome, by the temporal framework of shrinkage. By reintroducing the analytical domain of the future, I show that local temporal knowledge practices are not historically predetermined by a homogenous postsocialist culture or by particular generational experiences. Rather, they exhibit what I call temporal complexity and temporal flexibility-creative uses of a variety of coexisting temporal references. My ethnographic material illustrates how such expressions of different forms of temporal reasoning structure social relations within and between different generations. Corresponding social groups are not simply divided by age, but are united through shared and heavily disputed negotiations of the post-Cold War era's contemporary crisis.

Back to the Future, Part II: International Relations Theory and Post-Cold War Europe

1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Hoffmann ◽  
Robert O. Keohane ◽  
John J. Mearsheimer
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Future

The Legacy of 1989 and 1990

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Elise Sarotte
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Future

This concluding chapter looks at the legacy of the contest of 1989 and 1990. The legacy of 1989–90 shows the power of chance and contingency. At many points, all state leaders, superpower and otherwise, were simply reacting to change. They had to propose models of order for the future precisely because they were overwhelmed by disorder. Often they were not so much designing events as simply surviving them. The challenge was to make the best use of events, no matter how unexpected they might be. The most unexpected was the opening of the Berlin wall on November 9, 1989, which shocked everyone, and might easily not have happened at all. Indeed, the collapse of the Berlin wall and the subsequent struggle to co-create order in post-Cold War Europe represent truly major turning points in modern history.

International Legal Aspects of Protecting Civilians and Their Property in the Future Cyber Conflict

2016 ◽  
pp. 423-449
Author(s):  
Metodi Hadji-Janev
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Law ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Law Of Armed Conflict ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cyber Conflict

The post-Cold War reality has brought many changes that challenge political leaders, planners and operators. Using cyberspace to accomplish their political objectives, non-state actors and states have opened serious legal debates over the applicability of the international law of armed conflict principles in cyberspace. In this context, the article explores how the basic principles of International law of armed conflict will apply to the protection of the civilian population from the future cyber conflict. To accomplish this article addresses the ius ad bellum and the ius in bello aspects of cyber conflict.

12. Conclusion Justice and the Future of Global Politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-298
Author(s):  
Stephanie Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
English School ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Issues

This concluding chapter draws together some of the themes running throughout this book to address some key issues of justice and the future of global politics. In addition to outlining the concept of global justice, it deals with two contrasting normative approaches to issues in global politics, namely, cosmopolitanism and communitarianism, taking particular note of the debates that emerged in the post-Cold War period and which have been especially important for the analysis of human rights. The chapter looks at how these approaches map onto opposing strands of thought within the English school, namely, solidarism and pluralism. It then moves on to some specific issues in contemporary global politics involving the application of normative theory—citizenship, migration, and refugees. Finally, the chapter considers issues of intergenerational justice with respect to the normative links between past, present, and future and the responsibilities these entail.

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