It was originally an attempt to replicate (but reform) the failed League of Nations set up in a similar world climate of post-war devastation both politically, economically and socially. ... At this time it was the two major superpowers of the East and West that largely control international peace and security as the battled to avoid nuclear war. As this ended there were major implications as the balance of power shifted. ... The collapse of the Soviet Union as held by Khrushchev subsequently allowed the Security Council to be freed from the stalemate that it faced as a result of the threat of...

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This was to become known as the League of Nations that, ironically, the US Congress never ratified and thus never actually joined. ... Britain, being included in the League of Nations, not to mention being geographically close in proximity to the European continent, as well as being allied with France and Belgium (both of whom were invaded) were unfortunately sucked into the vacuum of conflict that had swept the globe into turmoil. ... The treaty was a major response by the west in order to combar the cold war against the aggressive threat of a continued mobilized Soviet military presence in...

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The Director of the Pro-Europe League of Journalists, Dr Nicolas K. ... In the post-Cold War era, the best way of deterring major wars between the principal geopolitical actors is the creation of the global security system that we mentioned above. ...

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It can be a case of simple geometry, in which A interacts with B: but in a more complex system such as that of Asia, with the presence of more than one major actor, each with their distinct, sometimes conflicting political agendas, the interaction between A and B will be likely to affect C or influenced by C. ... In my essay I will focus on this dual analysis of the content and form of the major patterns of strategic geometry and their change over time from Cold War to post Cold War. ... Firstly I will briefly outline the general strategic concerns or tenets of the Cold War era, the roles an...

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That was all true and beneficial to the US, but it did not work after the war when Wilson and other idealists placed their hopes for peace in the League of Nations as a formal structure for the community of nations as it was soon to be proven helpless at the start of WWII. ... It is easier to see that system drove behavior in the case of WWII more than WWI as the US demonstrated the want to permanently evict other major players from becoming a hegemon in their own pursuit of one. ...

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For instance, a good example of attraction was in the 1960s when Japan played a major role in affecting the neighboring countries found in Southeast Asia. ... In 1938, as the League of Nations fell apart the prime minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, used a new form of foreign policy in order to keep peace with Hitler. ... Almost all the news sources of major Russian television networks broadcast the exact same stories about the Crimean Crisis (Weir, 2014). ...

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Stalin edited briefly the new party newspaper, Pravda (Truth) and at Lenin's erge wrote his first major work, Marxism and the Nationality Question. ... In January of 1919, Lenin and Trotsky sent Stalin into Siberia to stop a major White advance westward, led by the former Tsarist officer Admiral Kolchak. ...

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