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• MULTIPOLARITY was period before before advent of CW •

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IR231 1
Ayşe-Şevval-Raylaz Assignment 2, book assignment, ENG102 Final, adm1122, Adm1122 midterm

• MULTIPOLARITY was period before before advent of CW
• before WW (1939) where we have diﬀ. power being more prominent than states
• but more or less in visa vis w each other
• bop ordering principle pf anarchy —> pitted against
• UNIPOLARITY is big question
• Nye: what US and Soviet Union wanted were compl. diﬀ.
• for Soviet wanted tangible gains —> wanted gains—> wanted expansion in
Eastern/Central Europe—> communist regime
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systemic level exp. level us that the lack of multiple polarity, multiple systems there is bond
• —>war, conflict but not the shaper of crisis (extended
• ——> a lotto do with IMAGE II
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until 1988/89 not one Soviet analyst was thinking of the demise of Soviet Union
31 19cent.
after CW
CW
IMAGE I
Stalin
Truman
IMAGE III
IMAGE II
USSR weakened by war ideology
— WWII- Bipolarity — Reduced Communism ideological confrontation)

OUR DISCIPLINE (IR) BORN TO END WAR :
• became realist
• took at its core reality of anarchy
• IR became much more of a strong discipline after WW dominated by realism
• before WW analysing utopia
• weaponisation of world politics came to constitute core of our discussion
• —> CW
• until s we did not think of any other debate beyond realist-liberal debate
• until s (neo-liberalism) until mid s
• necessity of diﬀ. state
• vis a vis enemy borders
• we see CW environment, especially period btw 47-66 <— dominated general thinking in iR discipline
• such of institution UN —> built on cs.
• —> an irrelevant institution for world polity bc it did notwork bc of bipolarity
• all institutions in CW environment doomed to brining any cooperation in CW

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