From 1948 onwards, a more or less clear-cut line divided Europe into two main political and military blocs: the communist bloc and the free world of Western Europe, resulting in an almost perfect bipolarity. ... How this took place during and after the Cold War is in many ways quite dissimilar. However, more importantly than the all encompassing quadrangle, it is the strategic geometry within the quadrangle that is most interesting and illustrates best, the changes and nuances in the transition from Cold War to post Cold War. ... As Mandlebaum suggests "Indeed in Asia, the structure of politic...

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"East Asia has both greatly benefited and greatly suffered from the effects of globalisation."" ... However, contrary to these views, the East Asian region has experienced extremely rapid growth and development which surpassed all expectations and eclipsed those growth rates of neighbouring developed nations. ... Although the effect is quite minimal in comparison to that of Latin America; Hong Kong , Singapore and to some extent, Korea have all demonstrated that foreign firms within East Asia are more capital-intensive than those of domestic firms which can make it hard for those...

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