Ideas have consequences: The Cold War and today

Autor:	Henry R. Nau
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	International relations Human rights Refugee media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Capitalism Collective security Democracy Political science Political economy Political Science and International Relations Ideology Communism media_common
Zdroj:	International Politics. 48:460-481
ISSN:	1740-3898 1384-5748
DOI:	10.1057/ip.2011.19
Popis:	In this essay, I make the case that the Cold War was caused by a competition of ideas rather than by a struggle for power or a failure of international institutions. The Cold War started when two sets of ideas diverged sufficiently – capitalism and communism – that they precluded either a realist – spheres of influence – or liberal – United Nations – solution to postwar differences in Europe. It ended when one set of ideas prevailed, and democracy and markets spread throughout the whole of Europe, eclipsing realist and liberal outcomes. The Soviet Union disappeared, which realists never expected; whereas the United Nations, which functioned briefly as a classic liberal collective security operation in the first Persian Gulf War, was quickly replaced by a democratic NATO in Bosnia and Kosovo. The competition of ideas did not end in the 1990s, however. It continues today in other forms and will shape the contours of military conflict and international cooperation in tomorrow's world, no less that it did during the Cold War.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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