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Joseph S. Nye And The End Of The Cold War

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1. Explain why this article starts with the end of the Cold War. Structure your answer around the power shifts in the international state system since the 1990s.
The journal article by Joseph S. Nye, Junior, begins by informing the readers that the cold war is over and the Americans is finding it difficult to find their place within the world by not being able to define soviet threat as international relations is currently transforming to be Nonpolarity where the world isn’t dominated by two or more states but rather dozens of barnstormers that is in procession of various kinds power, because power as well as influence is becoming unlinked within the Nonpolarity era. It was a time for uncertainty whereby no one knew what would happen after the great power shifts; thereby the public believed that the country was in a decline. The term cold war referred to the fact that there was no large-scale fighting between two sides; the Western bloc and the Eastern bloc. After the ‘Cold War’ transformation occurred. The Western bloc (United States) is considered less …show more content…

According to Nye the strength of great power was visible in the cold war. The power shifts in world politics had a traditional emphasis upon the military power. Their concern was to accept its limitations by supplementing them with a better view on interdependence. Within the traditional approach the states are seen as significant. The traditional approach gives priority to the military security in order to insure they survive; they consider their goal in security as an instrument of military force. (Nye, 1990: 158) In the modern world the phrase power has lost its accentuation on military. In the modern approach actors have become important, however they lack in power as states needs to consider new dimensions of current security. (Nye, 1990:

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