POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Non-Aligned Movement, Strategic Defense Initiative, Nuclear Arms Race
Document Summary
Cold war was a comprehensive ideological, geopolitical, military, and international rivalry between two superpowers (and their respective allies and client states) However the superpowers never directly fought each other. Called the long peace but millions died. Decolonization greatly increased the official number of states and development because a major international issue. Nonstate actors like multinational corporations and nongovernmental organizations became more prominent. Several themes that persisted until the collapse of the soviet union: Periods of high tension and crisis between superpowers, alternating with periods of relative relaxation of tensions and increased levels of cooperation. Good relations peaked between 1968 and 1978 called detente where both countries sought restraint and increased cooperation with each other"s relations. Majority of the cold war especially after the 1960s, each superpower was vulnerable to complete destruction by the nuclear arsenal of the other. Nuclear deterrence became the dominant military strategy of the cold war. Development of informal rules and mutual understandings.
