1990s What's Now, 1st Exam

1990s positives

1. great peace making success

2. great arms control successes

3. great human rights advancements

4. expansion of open markets

5. “women rights are human rights”

6. the internet

1990s negatives

1. migration

2. climate change

3. Taliban

4. Russia uses force against Chechyna

5. Ethnic/religious war

6. Al-Qadea

7. DPRK seeks nukes

8. India-Pakistan Nuclear Test

9. NATO Expansion?

realists 1990s view

unipolarity, US is the great power

-irrational for others to challenges

-results in many long-standing conflicts because previous state funders/supporters of violence are “gone”

liberals 1990s view

era of building more robust global institutions for multilateral cooperations

-some democracies are consolidated

-some fighting over kind of regime/who has powers and leads to violence

~democratic peace and authoritarian violence

constructivists 1990s view

no enemies really, fears of interstate war and needs more cooperative outcomes, still problems with hatred within some states and people that spur violence

Marxist 1990s view

due to win of predatory capitalism in CW, as era when profit maximization and corporate consolidation increases

-development of new communication technology increases powers of the powerful