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Against the background of the disintegration of the Eastern Bloc, the disappearance of the ‘Communist peril’ and early traces of globalization, the leaders of the United Nations and the Western powers were seeking a new approach to international relations in an international arena that was believed to have the potential to become more peaceful and more stable. When US President Bush declared in 1990 that the world was entering a new era under a new world order, particularly the Western world was confident that in the time to come international relations would be dominated by global unity, common assistance, international justice and international peace.
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Krieg, A. (2013). Conclusion. In: Motivations for Humanitarian intervention. SpringerBriefs in Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5374-7_5
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