• 1990’s —> Afghan-USSR—> US concerned that USSR becomes powerful
with Gorbachev regime • Gorbachev —> refroms—> perestroika
• —> making USSR stronger
• CW2 european tools of war changed,
more sophisticated • ideologies on both sides changed
• w/ Gorbachev tried to safe Soviet Union from demise
• in the west right-wing politics on the rise
• we were thinking Soviet Union winning the war—> being able
to cope star wars project • USSR threat was so real—> it would last 50 yrs more—> deated ins
-CW ended in a rather abrupt manner
• just like CW—> the demise of bipolarity also came w/out war
• quick collapse of USSR
• US
only remaining Superpower • change in anarchy at level of system power our understanding of realist IR
• how come such a radical change in bop w/out major change ?
• in the cycles —> order estab.
• —> there is a liberal order of 19th cent.
• —> peace reached—> order , the bop breaks and then needs to be wars still not talking about state collapse—> full destruction of states
• by outside powers—> always outside oriented
- what happens if states collapse from inside ?
• theory of IR could not answer on why they got destructed by their own and not after
a victory in battlefield • Yalta, Potsdam order made by victorious powers —> through agreement,consensus
• destructed one diplomatic
• realism being dominant
• George Bush—> new world order estab. w/o war
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• —> from bipolarity what do we have if there is no
battle who won who has power • winner in theoretical terms of CW—> US
• did it become unipolar-system? st question bipolar, multipolar, unipolar? where is bop
• unipolarity—> what does it mean
•
where does it level to 2nd. question world more peaceful place or was ridden by war (more, less secure)
• unipolarity better
• will state be totally irrelevant ?
• CW taught us 2 power w equal power : —> constant stability & small states also stable rd question what is happening to anarchy
• what was happening to state and mostly to 1648 order after CW in terms of sovereignty of states ,
in terms of where is anarchy • where are we w/out Westphalian world oder?
22/10/2019-5th-Lec-Tuesday
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