Word: bipolarity
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...Maintain American credibility. Once the U.S. made its initial rhetorical commitments to Israel, it could not afford to rescind them. In the zero-sum bipolar world, the U.S. feared that nonsupport for one of its allies would send others scurrying to the Soviet Union for protection. In the spirit of Machiavelli, America has preferred to reassure the Western bloc that its resident superpower would remain "a true friend...
INSTEAD OF FOCUSING on post-war American hegemony, Bush should concentrate on achieving collective security through a strong United Nations. With the end of the Cold War, this goal is possible. Yes, the U.N. was viewed as a joke in the context of a bipolar Cold War world; but its capacity for effectiveness has been demonstrated in the Gulf conflict. Bush should never lost sight of collective security--while fighting the war or while waging the peace...
Gorbachev's dismantling of the Cold War sent a sigh of relief throughout the West. After all, the bipolar world was fraught with tension, ideological antagonism, arms escalations, Soviet human rights violations and American collaboration with vicious right-wing autocracies. It lacked any semblance of a moral foundation. It was pure power politics at its basest...
However, the crumbling of Communism has created anxiety as well. For all its faults, the bipolar world was remarkably stable. The superpowers' arsenals balanced each other out. Might checked might. Everybody knew where they stood. Nobody was tempted to start a cataclysmic nuclear...
...same international environment that has given the State Department headaches in the Middle East offers hope in Southeast Asia. With the Cold War over, the challenge is to preserve the deterrence of a bipolar world with the flexibility to achieve human rights progress...