The Cold War

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This paper explains that economic and political policy reforms implemented by Eastern European countries, specifically the reunification of Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, finally brought about an end to the Cold War. The author contends that the developing countries are particularly at risk of falling back into an authoritarian regime due to the instability of processes of democratization. The paper relates that some experts suggest that the end of the Cold War created two super powers: the U.S.A. and the former Soviet Union.

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"Economic and political policy reforms implemented by Eastern European countries, specifically the reunification of Germany; the fall of the Berlin Wall; and the collapse of the Soviet Union, finally brought an put an end to the Cold War. In a relatively short amount of time these events lead to a new beginning for the world economy. "The end of the Cold War marked the closure of a distinct era in geopolitics and international relations. It changed not only the relations between states and rival blocs of states, but the very boundaries and definitions of states and thus the component parts of the international system" (Cronin, 2001, p. 3)."

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