Conclusion

Abstract

The end of the Cold War meant the victory of the United States, declared President George Bush in the heyday of the immediate post-Cold War period. At about the same time, two books came out, further elaborating the nature of the post-Cold War world. Richard O’Brien claimed that the end of geography meant the end of the tyranny of distance with regard to the rapidly expanding financial integration. The end of history meant the end of capitalist democracy, declared Francis Fukuyama, with regard to the ideological confrontation between capitalism and communism, and between democracy and dictatorship. The three-dimensional picture of the world in the immediate post-Cold War period was one of unipolarity, globalization and democratization