Globalization 1 the World Order

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Globalization & the World Order World War II shaped most of how the world looked between 1945 and 1985. A clear division between a prosperous, capitalistic West, and an impoverished, communist East Between the late 1980s and the early 1990s, the Soviet Union started facing a new process... the spark of revolution! This altered the European scenario bringing new opportunities but also new challenges for the east-european actors The "old" World How was power distributed Bipolar World Through a long and complex series of historical events, the USA and the USSR kept advancing power moves in different areas such as military advance, political alliances, and technological developments, to establish themselves as THE global leader Cold War 1945-1991 In 1985, he introduced a series of reforms called Perestroika & Glasnost This aimed to go from the socialist economy the USSR had considered a pilar, to a liberalization and restructuring of the country, including new relations with the West and an economy based on private property, offer-demand, amongst other principles This led to a serious instability within the Soviet Union which many countries saw as an opportunity to de-centralize pow...