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Sassy, Right again. According to Barnett, "the superpower rivalry
......peaked..." by 1973.
1. East and West had allowed each other their chunk of the earth;
2. The chance for global nuclear war had decreased by then (MAD);
3. Today's world emerged between those two dates:
4. Middle East became the focus of US military response around the world;
5. China evolved into an emergent market;
6. Globalization expanded to include Latin America and Developing Asia.
posted by
kingmi
on December 14, 2004 at 1:10 PM
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I am sure that Vietnam
has a major impact on this. Reagan having talks with the Russians just isn't a good enough reason.
posted by
Sherri_G
on December 14, 2004 at 9:03 AM
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Void, according to Barnett, the cold war was the outgrowth of our fear of
mutual destruction, and defined the rules for us as to when two super-powers would ever go to war. Never! Thanks for responding!
posted by
kingmi
on December 13, 2004 at 2:00 PM
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void, According to Barnett, from 1973 to 1989 we went from a policy of
containment, to one of tolerance of "chaos", which really took off after the fall of the Soviet Bloc. Of course no planning led to 9/11, or rather old planning for a war with a major power.
posted by
kingmi
on December 13, 2004 at 1:58 PM
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Hmmm...
I thought the cold war was a capitalist plot...
posted by
void-is
on December 13, 2004 at 1:21 PM
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