post-Cold War
Since Soviet collapse
Post-Cold War describes the period or conditions following the Cold War's end around 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved.
It typically characterizes international relations, foreign policy, or geopolitics in the era after superpower rivalry gave way to American dominance and new global challenges: post-Cold War foreign policy, the post-Cold War world order.
- new world orderTransformed global power structure
- democratizationTransition toward popular rule
- neoliberalismPro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- terrorismIntimidation through targeted violence
- emerging marketsRapidly growing economies
soft power · globalization · human rights advocacy · financial crises · regional conflicts · failed states · Pax Americana · peacekeeping missions · privatization · Washington Consensus · regionalism · nuclear proliferation · environmental awareness · rogue states · September 11 · war on terror · economic inequality · migration trends
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- War on TerrorOsama bin Laden, IED, Guantanamo, regime change, troop surge
post-Cold WarCold War
Prolonged East-West standoff
Cold War era · Soviet era · interwar period · World War II era · nineteenth century
post-Cold Warbipolar
Having two opposite poles
East-West divide · bipolarity · superpower rivalry · nuclear standoff · multipolar
post-Cold Warcontainment
Preventing hostile expansion
mutually assured destruction · MAD · nuclear standoff · détente · Truman Doctrine
post, cold, Cold War, posting, posted, posts, postal, postage, colder