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The World After The Cold War
From the fall of the Soviet Union to the rise of China and global terrorism, this story traces the turbulent reshaping of the international order after 1991.
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Modern · 1991 CE – 2020 CE
The World After The Cold War
After the Cold War, globalisation met new conflict and rivalry.
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Modern · 1945 CE – 1999 CE
The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia's violent breakup showed that the end of superpower confrontation had not secured a peaceful new order, as nationalism, state collapse, ethnic cleansing, and war returned to Europe in the 1990s.
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Modern · 1976 CE – 2020 CE
The Rise of China
China's economic transformation and growing global influence steadily altered the post-Cold War balance, moving the world away from an era of American predominance and towards renewed great-power competition.
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Modern · 2001 CE – 2021 CE
The United States After 9/11
After 9/11, the United States redirected its unmatched power towards the War on Terror, beginning long wars and expanding surveillance while the costs of those choices weakened confidence in American global leadership.
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