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The crumbling of the former communist block and the ending of the cold war had led people in thinking that the world would become safer. The cold war had been regarded from the realist politics corner as having had the motive of forming a balance between the two greatest powers in the world. The liberals, on the other side, believe that the balance in the world would be kept with the help of the institutions created by the U.S. with the purpose of maintaining an economical balance within all the countries in the world.

With the ending of the cold war the realists had been somewhat discontented because of the fact that they regarded the conflict between the two world-superpowers as being both natural and necessary. The liberalists on the other hand, had been certain that the Cold War had not been justified, despite of the fact that they generally encouraged liberalism all over the world. Thus, the ending of the Cold War had favored liberalists which now enjoyed U.N.-like institutions formed of both democratic and communist countries.

Most of the states in the world had cheerfully acknowledged the falling of the Communist block. The eastern European countries for example had felt that they've been liberated from the unjust regime. The western countries had regarded the end of the communism spreading across the world as a benefit, for they would have to fear less a potential attack from the Soviets.

In the present there is much controversy around the world's international system with its polarity being hard to identify. There are people claiming the world is ruled on all levels by the U.S. after the fall of the communist block and that we have a unipolar system. However, there are also people believing that the international system is, in fact, multipolar, with the world depending on more than four states and the superpowers never having been true rulers of the world.

Works Cited

Ari, Tayyar. At the CROSSROADS of SYSTEMIC TRANSFORMATION: SECURITY or DEMOCRACY?

Lebow, Ned. Risse-Kappen, Thomas. International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War. Columbia University Press, 1995.

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