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The end of the East-West struggle has upset the simple bipolar lens with which the major powers were used to looking at the world. The lack of a clearly identifiable ‘enemy’ figure has contributed to the profusion of new ‘threats’ and to the neo-realist assumption that a multipolar world is, of necessity, more unstable than the bipolar system typifying the Cold War era.
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Duke, S. (1994). The Nature of Post-Cold War Security. In: The New European Security Disorder. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390157_2
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