HIS344Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Deng Xiaoping, David Frum, Dissolution Of The Soviet Union
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Huntington end of cold war would resolve in new international conflict (conflict will not end), civilization will quarrel less but clash for natural resources. Fukuyama there will be no more conflicts. Search for a direction in the u. s. in terms of its foreign policy. Since soviet union collapse major attempt to globalize world economy: seen as a way to divide prosperity around world and divide wealth in. Nafta also established for similar goals. Believed this establishment would lead to a far more democratic and wealthy. Thus giving rise to pressure from below to push for better world economic and political system. Western culture became prevalent across the world: it was seen as part of the victor"s culture therefore worth it to. Because of these developments, the attack on september 11th, 2001 was incorporate into one"s own culture even a greater surprise: terrorism existed throughout history (ever since ir was prevalent)
