Essays about: "post-Cold War"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 38 essays containing the words post-Cold War.

  1. 1. The Arctic in Transition : Great Power Competition at the End of the Post-Cold War Order

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Malin Ridström; [2024]
    Keywords : the Arctic; Russia; China; the United States; great power behaviour; offensive realism; defensive realism; power transition theory; grand strategy; qualitative content analysis; Arctic exceptionalism;

    Abstract : This study uses defensive realism, offensive realism and power transition theory (PTT) in order to examine the great powers’ grand strategies in the Arctic region, aiming to recontextualise the security theatre in the Arctic as a reflection of the return of great power politics and the end of Arctic exceptionalism, and to examine the explanatory power of the different strands of realism on the great power behaviour identified in their Arctic strategies. The study is conducted using qualitative content analysis and utilises Jacob Westberg’s theorisation of grand strategies through the categories of context, ends, means and ways as analytical framework, to which the theoretical framework is applied. READ MORE

  2. 2. Russia-Ukraine War: A Critical Assessment of Youth’s Security Threat Perceptions in Växjö

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Emmanuel Sitta Ngissa; [2023]
    Keywords : Cold War; Russia-Ukraine war; Security threats; Ontological security; Youths; Crisis preparedness; Perceptions;

    Abstract : Since the end of the Cold War, security and security threats have transcended beyond the traditional security aspects due to changed global interactions in the facets of economic, political, diplomatic and even domestic policies of individual states. The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has not only heightened defence and security concerns in Europe and globally but has also revived the Cold War security tensions in some way necessitating an understanding of how contemporary security threats and crisis preparedness are perceived by civilians in this modern day and age. READ MORE

  3. 3. A Sane Voice amidst the Madness : The Prehistory of the 2023 World’s Stance on the Verge of a Nuclear War between the East and the West as a Logical Aftermath of the Post-Cold War History. How and Why Do We End Up in a State of a Cold War Again?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Vasil Shaptun; [2023]
    Keywords : Cold War; NATO; Russia; Post-Cold War; USA;

    Abstract : “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein Today we live in very interesting times for researchers but at the same time very dangerous for the whole human existence and our planet. READ MORE

  4. 4. The relationship between change in form of government and economic growth after the end of the Cold War: a panel data regression analysis

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Goran Ekmekci; Nils Karlsson; [2022-02-15]
    Keywords : democracy; autocracy; economic growth; GDP per capita;

    Abstract : This study aims to examine the relationship between the form of government and economic growth in the post-Cold War period. This is done with a panel data analysis, containing cross-sectional units of 145 countries with a time period ranging from 1995 to 2018. READ MORE

  5. 5. Small State Relations in a Post-Cold War Order : A Case Study of North Macedonia

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Marcus Giarimi; [2021]
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    Abstract : During the Cold War, small states were often side-lined as unimportant or too weak to make an impact on the world stage. However, as the Cold War ended, more smaller states emerged along the emergence of several international institutions and increased focus on international laws, which smaller states sought to uphold through participation in the international forums such as the UN. READ MORE