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How would you differentiate the post-Cold War global order from its predecessor?

  • UPSC 2007
  • 60 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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The Cold War order (1947–91) was what Kenneth N. Waltz (Theory of International Politics, 1979) called a bipolar system: two superpowers of comparable capability, each managing a bloc, locked in an ideological and nuclear rivalry that John Lewis Gaddis credited with a "long peace" among the great powers (1986). Malta (1989) and the Soviet collapse…

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  • Points of difference
  • Deeper shifts the table compresses
  • What did not change
  • India across the two orders
  • The post-Cold War order is itself changing
  • Conclusion
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