Not quite a new world order, more a three-way split. (modern foreign relations)(Foreign Policy)

Economist (US), The, December, 1997

The world has changed since the fall of communism in 1989, but not as many had expected. British diplomat Robert Cooper argues that believes what has changed in that the balance of power no longer dominates relations in Europe.

IT IS, as someone once said, a funny old world, and the older it gets, the funnier it seems. When communism collapsed in 1989, half a century of certainties went out the window. The West had won the cold war, and rejoicing seemed in order. But this was not like the end of other wars. Instead of grabbing territory and reparations, the victors set up stand-by facilities and know-how funds. The frosty clarity of cold warfare had given way to the fog of peace.

When, in September 1990, after Iraq had invaded Kuwait, President George Bush...

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