Legacy of the Cold War

bequest of the parky state of warfareSana KarwanBenjamin BoyceThe Legacy of the cold warAll th approximate news report, conflicts and battles in the midst of civilizations and nations take for been inevitable. Nations have built military protections, whether they were threatened or not. Many wars have happened end-to-end our history, some small and some huge. devil of the important wars in history are the knowledge domain wars happened in the twentieth century. In reason planetary Conflict and Cooperation Intro to Theory and History by Joseph Nye and David Welch, it is menti wholenessd that the alliance placement between the countries in atomic number 63 appeared to be multipolar, then it became less invariable and Ger some rose in antecedent, the balance of power seemed less multipolar and became a bipolar system of alliance and increased the likelihood of war, which was the first human being war. later onward the First land warfare, the League of Nation was formed the main exact of the league was Collective Security. But the league failed to attain what it was established for. Although against the rules of the league, scarcely Britain and France formed an alliance and guaranteed the safety of Poland. One of the agents base on a state level of analysis was when Adolf Hitler live ons his troops to Poland and World state of war Two starts. Adolf Hitlers target was Russia, Germany had a Fascist government and USSR had a communist government. afterwards attacking the USSR by the Germans, Josef Stalin allies with the unite States and the Britain against Germany, forming the big triad. Stalin had conditions engagement this war against the Germans, which was taking all the territories he wants after the war is over. After the defeat of the Germans, the wartime allies, the US and the USSR, so quickly become enemies and the Cold contend starts. The cold war leftfieldfield the world militarized, thousands of people lost their lives, many countries financial and economic states were enamord, and the last but not the least, it left a legacy of Nuclear Weapon on the world. (Nye and Welch, 2012)The fall in States ends the guerrilla World fight by being the international policeman, fighting against communism. With the initiatives the US started, USSR started to baffle and wanted to show off his power against the US as well. The marshal Plan and the Truman Doctrine were two initiatives by the United States, one to aid europium remodel its countries that were affected by the war and the later was to in promptly fight communism. The USSR as a communist country, did not take the marshall Plan, he did not want to be indebted to the US and didnt want to show the US they need their money. Also, with the Truman Doctrine, the Republicanism/Communism war started between the two major powers of the second half of the twentieth century. (JFK subroutine library, 2015)The Cold War was the tense relationship between the Unit ed States and USSR and their allies. The war started after the Second World War ended up to the collapse of the Soviet Union, from 1945 to 1991. The bam of the war was difference in ideology of the two powers. Each one of them was onerous to convince the other who is intemperateer. Politically, the Soviet Union was fighting for Marxism and the United States for Republicanism, and economically, the USSR was supporting communism and the US was supporting capitalism. The two countries never directly confronted each other militarily, but threatened each other by nuclear weapon and fought proxy wars- using the resources of other countries to showcase power. The war defined the inappropriate policy of the two powers and was a competition of who is the superpower. (Kramer, 1999)Arthur Schlesinger based on a revisionist thesis thinks that after the Second World War, US deliberately abandoned their policy of helping and collaboration of the europiuman countries to redo europium. Exhil arated by the possession of atomic bomb, the United States undertook a stemma of aggression of self-designed to abolish the communism influence of Russia on Eastern Europe and to establish democratic and capitalist states. Truman, the US president at that time, left the Russians no alternative but to defend their boarders. On the other hand, rear end Mearsheimer claims that the absence of war in Europe since 1945 has been a consequence of three factors the bipolar distribution of military power on the continent the rough military equality between the two states compromising the two poles in Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union and the fact that each superpower was build up with a large nuclear arsenal. Mearsheimer argues that possibility for major crisis and instability in Europe was very likely after the cold war. He besides believes that Europe without the superpowers would be more than likely to suffer violence than the prehistorical 45 year. In addition to that, he considers that the anarchic nature of these two super powers over Europe pretty much defined their foreign policies. (Schlesinger, 1967) (Mearsheimer, 1990)Mearsheimer explains the Cold War as the longest period of counterinsurgency in European history. During the Cold War, Europe faced no major war according to him, only a couple of minor wars that didnt wager Europe to major war. Furthermore, he illustrates that there were major crisis in Europe during the early years of the war which again didnt not become Europe to the brink of war. He believes that home(prenominal) factors, especially nationalism caused the wars of the pre 1945 era, trance the post 1945 era, although European states were more concerned nigh peace, but domestic factors had lesser important in the international community, since distribution of military power between states had characterized Europe. Based on these assumptions, during the cold war, a militarized Europe was the result of the Cold War. (Mear sheimer, 1990)I inter visited my father about the military influence of the Cold War. He told me that based on what I have film about the Cold War is that after the Second World War the USSR had influenced and Controlled much of Eastern Europe, and the United States took that into consideration, that they didnt want that communism view to spread more. They didnt confront each other militarily, but the world was in a psychological war because of these two superpowers. The influence of the Cold War reached Africa, central Asia and the Middle East, specifically Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. The Cold War left a legacy of heavy militarization of the World that there was no national or international security. The US and the USSR developed far more advanced nuclear weapons than the Hiroshima experience. The countries under the Soviet Union were oppressed, there was no democracy in Russia, and the Soviet Union was so busy in aiding the country and other countries that were a gainst the US militarily led to the collapse of the USSR. When I asked him about the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s and the influence of the Cold War, he recalled that although the Iraq was under the circle of the Soviet Union, but the United States was helping Iraq indirectly. In 1988, the US hit one of Irans airplanes in Iraq and this was an alert. Also in his opinion in Central Asia, with the establishment of Taliban and Al-Qaida, the US was helping these before long so called terrorist groups against the Soviet Union. This reminded me of the I am Malala book by Malala Yousafzaithat I read recently. As a kid, Malala recalls how the US is helping Taliban against Russia.C. Fred Bergsten talks about three global transformations to the world parsimony after the Cold War. First, the reforms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if successful, lead end the Cold War and most East-West confrontation, and will allow substantial reductions in military arsenals. Second, the salience of se curity issues will decline sharply economics will move much closer to the top of the global agenda. Third, the world economy will complete its evolution from the American-dominated regime of the first postwar generation to a state of US-Europe-Japan tripolarity. what he means by these transformations is that the role of individual states will go back to the international economic positions they supposed to have. Also, he is trying to draw our attention to a united Europe with a strong economy that will create a large market for trade. The reason he is talking about these economic roles of Europe is that the United States is in relative economic decline. During the World Wars in Europe, the United States appeared to have the largest economy that was willingly helping the European countries to rebuild Europe. (Bergsten, 1990)In conclusion, the Cold War left a huge economic and military legacy on the world. It left the world with plenty of military bases of the United States around the world. whitethorn be the economic legacy of the Cold War was not as big as the military legacy, but it took time for Europe to rebuild itself. In my opinion, the legacy of the Cold War can be apparently seen in Central Asia, especially in Afghanistan, where Al-Qaida was established in. The United States helping the terrorist group in Afghanistan against USSR hit back on them in September 11, 2001. So, the Cold War that is called to be the longest period of peace in Europe had a corrupt aftermath on the world and left the world militarized that we cannot help fixing.Works CitedBergsten, C. Fred. The Wrold Economy after the Cold War. The untested American Realism. Foreign Affairs. Council on Foreign Relations. Vol. 69, no. 3 (Summer, 1990), pp. 96-112. edge 20, 2015.Kramer, Mark. Ideology and the Cold War. Review of International Studies. Cambridge University Press. 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