America's Post-Cold War Security

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[...] (2011). "Peace in the post-Cold War World." The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/peace-in-the-post-cold-war-world/249863/# Abrams, Elliott. (2022). "The New Cold War." National Review, hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved from https://www.cfr.org/blog/new-cold-war-0 Rumer, Eugene, and Sokolsky, Richard. (2019). "Is it Pos"Is it Possible to Break the Vicious Circle: Thirty Years of U.S. Policy Toward Russia?" TheThe Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Retrieved from https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/06/20/thirty-years-of-U.S.-policy-toward-Russia-can-vicious-circle-be-broken-pub-79323 Farrington, Keegan. (2023). [...]

[...] America's Post-Cold War Security The Cold War was a prolonged period of political rivalry between the US and USSR and their allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, beginning in 1947 and ending in 1991. The term "cold war" refers to the absence of direct, large-scale warfare between the two superpowers, as they supported different sides in major regional proxy battles. The two countries' ideological and geopolitical rivalry for global influence caused the rivalry, which was previously allies in World War II against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, resulting in victory in 1945 (Michalak, 2011). [...]

[...] Assessing whether America is safer now than during the Cold War is a complex aspect. Without direct superpower conflict, a global nuclear war is less likely. Cohen claims that terrorism and cyber threats have changed safety. The unpredictability of current conflicts, compounded by technical advances and regional instabilities, further complicates post-Cold War safety assessments. According to the research, with more than 60,000 nuclear weapons at the ready in both the US and the USSR, the nuclear danger has diminished dramatically since the end of the Cold War. [...]

[...] The University of British Columbia's research on global conflict trends, which shows a decline in terrorism after the Cold War, is nuanced yet may not fully represent modern security challenges. These viewpoints fail to address rising dangers like hybrid warfare and geopolitical tensions, which have grown in recent years. These discrepancies show how global security dynamics are changing and how difficult it is to foresee in a turbulent and interconnected world. References Michalak, Stanley. (2011). "The Late (but Great) Stanley Michalak." Vimeo. Retrieved from http://vimeo.com/22555339 Cohen, Michael. [...]