The threat of a nuclear war is greater now that the cold war is over because, more nations have nuclear warheads, the smuggling of nuclear materials is on the rise, and nuclear treaties are ineffective. ... The mutual deterrence that existed during the cold war, because instead of two parties fighting for the world you now have numerous parties trying to defend their own interests inside of their own area. ... The war there is not a cold war. ... Many treaties are out of date because they were drafted during the cold war and apply only to the United States and Russia. ... The threat of a N...

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Through the early years of the cold war Americans believed that nuclear weapons were war fighting tools that were likely to be used in an international conflict involving both the US and the Soviet Union; however, nuclear weapons were not used on China during the Korean War for fear that the Soviet Union might retaliate with a nuclear weapons attack on the U.S. ... At that point, nuclear weapons were no longer weapons of war, they were political tools useful for avoiding nuclear war and manipulating domestic and international politics. ... During the 20 year period prior to the end of the co...

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The end of the cold war brought a new legitimacy to a theory; one which best illustrates Canada's foreign policy. ... Canada's greatest showing of independent policy came during the Cold War when the world was breaking into two armed camps, Canada maintained relations with both sides contrary to most countries. ... The second case study which will be examined is Canada's relationship with both communist and capitalist countries during the Cold War. ... Even while the Cold War was a major factor Canada and Russia maintained strong diplomatic relations which have remained stron...

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This is the reason why the armed forces of Canada were a very important part of peace keeping during the Cold War when the two Great Powers, the Soviet Union and the United States, and major powers having colonialist history like France and Britain, all having huge military forces, were not accepted in united nations operations by most of the member states . The armed forces ended up participating in various peacekeeping missions, most important during the Cold War. For most of the war, the mission caused appreciation and praise, but with minimal military advantages. ... For instance, the pea...

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The US and Soviets are in middle of a heated cold war that will decide whether communism and the USSR will become the lead power in the international community, or whether US hegemony will remain. ... Eventual escalation would then lead us to nuclear war. ... In addition, the arms build up and general escalation of the cold war has placed the US and Soviets in a position with little room for diplomacy. Neither of these nations is ready, at this point and time, to allow diplomacy to bring an end to the cold war that exists between them. ... Soviets are as reluctant to enter into Nuclear war...

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Weapons proliferation is a huge problem for the entire world; however it has been a problem since World War I. There was an arms race between Germany and Great Britain that lead to World War I. The arms race between the United States of America and the Soviet Union (the Cold War), nearly lead to World War III. ... Arms proliferation is nothing new to modern society, it is something that all of us has lived with, especially those that remember the Cold War. ... For example, the war against terrorism in Afghanistan, the Afghan government used artillery against the United States that the Unit...

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Peacekeeping initially developed during the Cold War. ... The main purpose of peacekeepers is to help two warring parties make an agreement and stop hostile actions. ... After the Cold War approach to war changed. ... After World War II every U.S. ... Civil war exploded because of the two ideas. ...

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According to this definition, after the Second World War the main threat to international security was identified with the interstate-armed conflicts in the traditional military sense. ... In fact, in the Preamble of the Charter we can read that one of its main objective is to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war ", considered the main risk for the interstate security. Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2012), explains that the concept of security started to change after the end of the Cold War and not it includes a new additional element, which is "the protection...

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Introduction Over the last half century the United Nations has been providing regulation, order and peace throughout the world since the end of the second World War. ... In conclusion I intend to discuss several "milestones " achieved by the UN over the past 50 years and the UN's powerlessness in the Cold War Era from 1945 to 1990. ... The creation of the League of Nations began after the First World War (1915), then United States President Woodrow Wilson welcomed the idea of a general association of nations. ... In war time 1942 the idea of a new international organi...

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World War I had left Europe in a state that needed to be reformed. ... It was in 1942 that President Roosevelt of the United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of England met to resolve the atrocities of World War II. ... The UN replaced the League of Nations and immediately went to work resolving complications and issues caused by both World Wars. ... The world and society was undergoing a drastic change after World War II which in turn caused their perception on human rights to change as well. ... These trials set the precedent for later international war crimes trials. ...

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We're no longer in a cold war. ... The danger for the world is, that the United States after a decade of war, rightly concerned about issues back home, aware of the hostility that our engagement in the region has engendered throughout the Muslim world, may disengage creating a vacuum of leadership that no other nation is ready to fill. ...

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These results are just from lack of food, that value is nearly doubled from death from simple and preventable diseases like the common cold and dehydration from diarrhoea . ... For instance, after WWII, the U.S., mounted one of the largest relief efforts ever to help ruined European countries recover from the war. ...

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Better policies in developing countries, together with improved allocation of aid since the end of the Cold War, imply that aid is more effective today at reducing poverty than ever before. ...

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