INTRODUCTION
Since the end of the cold war in 1989, the United States of America has emerged to be the sole surviving superpower, introducing international politics to its current and prevailing state of unipolarity. But, what really is unipolarity? The years following the end of the Second World War after 1945, were a period of bipolarity that was met with the cold war: a struggle in both military and political efforts between the western bloc (the United States and its allies) and the eastern bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw pact). The cold war came to an end as the soviet bloc collapsed leaving Russia to stand on its own and with less power, thus giving the United States of America its supremacy as the only superpower
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The series of events at the end of the cold war that presented unipolarity to the world for the first time were quite surprising to several theorists. The United States of America and other state actors on the international stage have been involved in a great deal of conflicts and wars in the years that have come to follow the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the start of a unipolar international system. Some of these wars and conflicts include the Nepalese civil war (1996-2006), the civil war in Afghanistan (1996-2001), the Iraqi Kurdish civil war (1994-1997), the Gulf war (1990-1991), and the operations enduring freedom in the Philippines and the horn of Africa (2002 to present).
Monteiro (2013) claims that the first twenty years since unipolarity began makeup at least twenty five percent of the total war that the United States has been involved in. (p.11)
According to Monteiro, those that usually propose that unipolarity is stabilizing base their view on basically two
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Furthermore, proliferation of such ammunition and weapons would lead to the rise of a sizable power that could lead to rising tensions in the struggle for power dominance. Hence, the unipole will try to undermine and compromise these efforts so as to maintain the global status quo and as well ensure the survival of its citizenry from external attack.
The years that followed the end of the cold war until the 2001 September terror attacks on the United States of America saw this current unipole undertake the defensive dominance strategy. It is generally proven by the series of events that came to lead to the Kosovo war of 1999 and the Persian gulf war of 1991. Furthermore, the war between Pakistan and India known as the kargil war plus nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran are series of events that explain the United States defense dominance strategy.
b) Offensive