scholarly journals France and international relations in the post‐Cold War era: Some lessons of the past

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-274
Author(s):  
J. F. V. Keiger
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cold War Era

4. The Middle East Since the Cold War: Movement without Progress

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-104
Author(s):  
Bahgat Korany
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Security Patterns ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter focuses on the Middle East during the post-Cold-War era. It introduces some the key themes that have come to dominate contemporary international relations of the Middle East: oil; new and old conflicts; the impacts of globalization; and religio-politics. In considering the major security patterns and trends in the Middle East, one finds a number of enduring issues, such as the Arab–Israeli conflict and border disputes. At the same time, one can see elements of change, both within these conflicts and with the emergence of recent threats, such as Iranian nuclearization, with profound consequences for regional alliance structures. As old and new security issues mingle in the geopolitical order, events of the past few years reflect a region dominated by conflict clusters. It is no surprise then that the Middle East remains a highly militarized region.

‘Realism as an Unsentimental Intellectual Temper’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Berdal
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Armed Force ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
Theoretical Construction

The post-Cold War era witnessed a growing tendency to justify the use and the threat of use of military force in international relations on humanitarian grounds. Freedman’s writing on the use of armed force in pursuit of humanitarian goals and his contribution to the field are explored in this chapter. He rejects the traditional dichotomies in International Relations scholarship between Realism and Idealism. Freedman’s work on ‘New Interventionism’, with the Chicago Speech contribution at its core, suggests that it is unhelpful to delineate sharply different existing schools of thought, or paradigms. Freedman draws a distinction between ‘realism as an unsentimental temper’ and realism as a ‘theoretical construction.’ Liberal values are important for Freedman and their universality is to be asserted, but that does not mean being naively oblivious to dangers and difficulties inherent in seeking to promote them as standards against which Western governments should be judged.

Cold War Legacies: The Migration and Transformation of Popular/Unpopular Culture

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
Roger Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cold War ◽  
International Context ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
The Cold War

This article reviews two recent collections of essays that focus on the role of popular culture in the Cold War. The article sets the phenomenon into a wide international context and shows how American popular culture affected Europe and vice versa. The essays in these two collections, though divergent in many key respects, show that culture is dynamic and that the past as interpreted from the perspective of the present is often reworked with new meanings. Understanding popular culture in its Cold War context is crucial, but seeing how the culture has evolved in the post-Cold War era can illuminate our view of its Cold War roots.

The English School vs. American Realism: a meeting of minds or divided by a common language?

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Little
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
English School ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Past

This Forum has two main aims. First and foremost, it is designed to assess the relevance of American realism in the wake of developments that are considered to have transformed international relations over the past decade. A second aim, but one that is central to my contribution, is to assess whether or not the resurgent English School provides the foundations for an approach that can account more effectively for developments in the post-Cold War world than American realism.

Socratic Cosmopolitanism: Cicero's Critique and Transformation of the Stoic Ideal

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Pangle
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
World Community ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
The Law

AbstractThe post-Cold War era has provoked a revival of various implicit as well as explicit returns to Stoic cosmopolitan theory as a possible source of a normative conceptual framework for international relations and global community. This article confronts this revival of interest in Stoicism with an analysis of Cicero's constructive critique of original Stoic conceptions of the world community. Particular attention is paid to the arguments by which Cicero identifies major flaws in the Stoic outlook and establishes the validity of his alternative notion of the “law of nations.” It is argued that Cicero's transformation of Stoicism issues in a more modest but more solid, as well as more civic-spirited, cosmopolitan theory. At the same time, the implications of Cicero's arguments for our understanding of justice altogether are clarified.

scholarly journals The process of NATO enlargement in Europe

2009 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-294
Author(s):  
Dejan Gajic
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
European Security ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nato Enlargement ◽  
Cold War Era

The paper deals with the main aspects of NATO enlargement since its foundation in 1949. The author points to the basic criteria for NATO accession during the past sixty years. Special reference is given to the main issues concerning accession of new NATO members in the post-Cold War era. The author presents the Study of NATO Enlargement, a basic document that laid out rationales for enlargement. He also gives the key elements of European security and contemporary NATO-Russia relations.

scholarly journals Le Désengagement du Canada dans les Affaires Internationaux

Federalism-E ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Roy
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
International Peacekeeping ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions

This article analyses the downfall of Canada’s participation and influence over international peacekeeping missions in the post-Cold War era. The author begins by discussing how the collapse of the USSR led to fundamental changes in the system of international relations. The author then centres her discussion on Canada, focusing primarily on the national and international considerations that are influencing the nation’s involvement in missions overseas.

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