The Soviet Bloc vs the West

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The paper explains the bipolar idea that depicts the world as divided into two camps, both militarily and ideologically, with the West representing democratic ideals and with the Soviet bloc representing Communism in opposition to democracy. The paper describes the era of the Cold War when the two sides engaged in an escalating arms race that lasted until the Soviet Union dissolved. The paper relates that today the process of globalization replaced the economic aspects of the bipolar world and terrorism and the globalization of the conflict in the Middle East has taken the place of the Soviet Union as the major threat to the West.

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"The bipolar world that developed after World War II represented the basic perceived structure of world politics during the Cold War. The bipolar idea depicts the world as essentially divided into two camps, both militarily and ideologically, with the West representing democratic ideals, and with the Soviet bloc representing Communism in opposition to democracy. Much of the world divided between the two camps, with the two sides creating mutual defense pacts among member nations, and with much of the rhetoric of the age based on the clash of ideologies as well as images of a military threat from the other side."

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• May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound. New York: Basic Books, 1988.
• Newhouse, John. War and Peace in the Nuclear Age. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.
• Suny, Ronald Grigory. The Making of the Georgian Nation. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1994.
• Smith, Graham. The Post-Soviet State. London: Arnold, 1999.

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