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Global Europe at the End of the Cold War: The Demise of the North-South Dimension?

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The chapter looks at how Europe’s global role changed throughout the Cold War. It argues that the original global dimension, with its peculiar Western and imperial identity, was transformed at the end of the Cold War. It contends that this transformation was the result of a long process that was remarkably influenced by the dynamics of globalisation in the 1980s.

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Lorenzini, S. (2023). Global Europe at the End of the Cold War: The Demise of the North-South Dimension?. In: Di Donato, M., Pons, S. (eds) European Integration and the Global Financial Crisis. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06797-6_4

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