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Comment: The Gulf Crisis 1991-92.

  • UPSC 1999
  • 20 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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The Gulf crisis began with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, peaked in the war of January–February 1991 and ran on through the disarmament, Kurdish and no-fly-zone disputes of 1991–92. It was the first great test of the post-Cold War order: President George H. W. Bush hailed a "new world order" in September…

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