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The collapse of the Soviet Union has left the ‘West’ suddenly bereft of a focal threat; the cement that held them so firmly together has gone. The countries of Eastern Europe, freed from the Soviet empire face economic problems, and the pangs of political democratization. The republics of the erstwhile USSR, suddenly freed from Russian hegemony, face not only similar problems as Eastern Europe and in greater measure because of their past closer integration in the Soviet Union, but also a strategic threat from the predominantly powerful Russian Federation. Russia has not only severe economic problems, but equally severe problems of socio-political restructuring. The third world countries have lost the sense of cohesion that non-alignment gave them, with the disappearance of one of the two poles. Many of their economic assumptions, though these varied from communist models to fabian socialism have all been sorely shaken by the collapse of the Soviet system and the apparent victory of capitalism. The ‘North-South’ schism seems to be gaining primacy as the ‘East-West’ divide disappears.
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Sundarji, K. (1995). Strategic Stability in the Early 2000S: An Indian View of a South Asian Model. In: Best, M.L., Hughes-Wilson, J., Piontkowsky, A.A. (eds) Strategic Stability in the Post-Cold War World and the Future of Nuclear Disarmament. NATO ASI Series, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8396-1_11
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