PLIR 3500 Lecture 5: lecture 5

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The cold war - a full-spectrum competition, lasting from about 1945 to about 1990, between coalitions led by the two superpowers (the united states and the soviet union) for the spread of their ideological systems . The cold war definition in detail (i): full-spectrum competition. The cold war definition in detail (ii): coalitions. Dynamics of dual coalitions: the two-color theorem: pervasive competition or crisis. Red: communist; blue: capitalist: more is better, both relatively and absolutely, power to the pawns. Degrees of importance: european core: nato vs. warsaw pact. Nato: western, capitalist countries, treaty creates lots of bureaucracy, creates alliances between similar countries, makes military compatible: east asian importance. China and japan flip flop between communist/capitalist w/ civil war. Vietnam kick out colonial france, divided north and south: global periphery. The cold war definition in detail (iii): superpowers. Lots of nuclear weapons: superpowers (us, su): ten thousands, associated nuclear powers (uk, fr, prc): hundreds, non-nuclear powers (150+): none.

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