“Shoot Against the Waves”: Securitization and Militarization of Natural Disasters and Humanitarian Help in Latin America by Alejandro Frenkel

“…In great part, this is due to the reconfiguration of threats produced after the Cold War and the questioning of the security policies of the United States in the region. …”
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New Aspects of National Security Startegy by V. I. Mizin

“…He attempts to trace the influence of such unorthodox factors as polycentrical nature of the world, departure from exacerbated military confrontation, global terrorist threat on the formation of a principally novel model of strategic stability which substitutes the paradigms of the cold war era. The article dresses the list of specific proposals on the strengthening of military and political security worldwide.…”
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Looking Ahead with the New International Studies by Andrew Wright Hurley

“… As I write this, the world seems to be in a more precarious position than it was 30 years ago, when the Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (BAIS) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) was established. In 1994, the Cold War appeared to have come to an end. That year an Accord was signed between Israel and Palestine, and Yasir Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize. …”
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Rusya Federasyonu’nun Kafkasya Politikası: Bütüncül Bakış by Ahmet SAPMAZ

“…However, considering especially security policies of the RF, it is possible to see that the region is actually handled holistically. In the post-Cold War period, the Caucasus formed one of the most dynamic areas of RF's domestic, foreign and security policy and almost served as a testing ground for analyzing Moscow's reaction to the developments. …”
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Histoire Croisée by Bénédicte Zimmermann

“…Globalization makes understanding worldmaking processes a crucial issue. During the Cold War the social sciences mainly addressed this issue through comparative studies which mirrored the logic of the world-historical confrontation. …”
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La crise de Crimée (mars 2014) : comment en est-on arrivé là ? by Yann Richard

“…And it is regrettable that this issue is addressed in the French press in very oriented way without really considering the Russian point of view, except to assert that president Putin boosted a new cold war and revives Russian imperialism. The annexation of the Crimea is undoubtedly a covert annexation. …”
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Les relations de frontière entre le Portugal et l’Espagne au temps de la dictature dans l’œuvre d’Álvaro Cunhal/Manuel Tiago by João Carlos Vitorino Pereira

“…In his literary work, the transgressive crossing of frontiers, during the dictatorship and the Cold War, contributed to the heroisation of communist activists and the clandestine apparatus of the pcp. …”
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Wallander's Dark Geopolitics by Stougaard-Nielsen Jakob

“…The overarching premise for this article is to explore the extent to which Henning Mankell's crime novels and their adaptations engage the character Wallander's own and “other” worlds with a cosmopolitan perspective, by considering the mutations of Wallander's fictional local world as intricately tied to discursive geopolitical realities of the post–Cold War world. More specifically, I consider what may be gained from exploring the Wallander series within two distinct – yet, I shall argue, related – perspectives on geopolitics and crime fiction: on the one hand, the geopolitics of the translation, adaptation, and reception networks that have “worlded” the Wallander series (what I call Wallander's geopolitical adaptation networks), and on the other, the fictional geopolitical networks that weave the Global North and the Global South together in several of Mankell's intricate crime plots (Wallander's dark geopolitics).…”
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NATO’s Military Structure: Change and Continuity by Ali Bilgin VARLIK

“…The initial force structure of the Alliance which covers all allocated forces including the fixed ones to NATO has gradually transformed to deployable (movable) force structure by three subsequent changes after the Cold War. The new force structure is set based upon considerations on a gradual readiness level. …”
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Adapting Military Doctrines to Shifting Power Dynamics in the International System: Looking Beyond Unipolarity through the Analyses of Charles Kupchan by Erhan Büyükakıncı

“…With the end of the bipolar system at the end of the Cold War, the world order shifted to a unipolar era led by the United States (US). …”
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Soğuk Savaş Döneminde Türk Dış Politikasının Kimliği: İdeolojinin Sonu mu? by Fulya ÖZKAN

“…The article will make an evaluation of this difference and suggest that Cold War politics played a role because especially following the Second World War, different political ideologies started following a similar trend in their foreign policy visions. …”
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Debating Toynbee's theory of challenge and response: Christian civilisation or Western imperialism? by F. Hale

“…This in itself was a controversial perception in the Cold War. In some Christian circles, his overarching interpretation was rejected as  historiographically flawed. …”
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How the Public in the US Responded to Javanese and Balinese Performing Arts? by Rafngi Mufidah, Dhanang Respati Puguh, Singgih Tri Sulistiyono

“…It is of importance that from 1950s to 1960s, Indonesia had to adapt to the Cold War, which forced the developing countries to choose the Western or Eastern bloc in their foreign policy. …”
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“Where Does My Hope Come From?”: P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992) as a Christian Dystopia in the Context of the Late 20th Century Demographic Crisis by Suzanne Bray

“…While British dystopian works from the 1930s to the mid-1980s were primarily concerned with the fear of totalitarian regimes and/or nuclear war, by the last years of the twentieth century, the end of the Cold War meant that these worries were no longer so prevalent. …”
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Gender Perspective in the Studies of War by T. V. Skorospelova

“…Feminist studies, first introduced in international relations theory back in the Cold War, established themselves as an independent research field in 1990s. …”
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The Patriarchal Election Crisis At The Armenian Patriarchate Of Istanbul: The Repercussion of The Crisis In The American Consular Reports And Turkish Press (1944-1950) by Hikmet, Öksüz

“…As this period coincided with the beginnings of the Cold War, the Turkish government strove to solve the interim crisis within its boundaries, a process which started with the Prime Minister Şemsettin Günaydın in 1949 and was finalized in the first months of the Democrat Party government. …”
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Gazetecilik Yıllarında Bülent Ecevit ve Anti-Komünizm (1950-1961) by Ferit Salim SANLI

“…In this period, when the Cold War dominated and Turkey showed its side by being included in NATO, Ecevit also spent a lot of time on the issue of communism and gave ample coverage to this issue in his writings. …”
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Comparison of Military Potentials of USA, PRC, and Some Countries in APR from the Standpoint of Western Analysts by M. Tchaikovsky, A. Kazantsev

“…By their opinion, escalation of American- Chinese military opposition in the region leads to formation of new international polytical configuration in the filed of security and rising of new cold war mainly aimed at the APR. The dynamics of military expenditures of the key regional players is analyzed evidencing the fast grow of their military potentials. …”
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Strategic Partnership between Russia and India from the Perspective of National Elites by Alexey Kupriyanov

“…This attitude has been shaped by historical factors, such as the formation of the Indian elites under the influence of British political, economic, and military culture, and the reckless admiration of the victors of the Cold War by the Russian elites, which attempted to abandon the Soviet legacy after the collapse of the USSR. …”
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EU, Eastern Europe and Values Imperialism by S. White

“…This paper proposes an idea of'values imperialism'as a helpful way of conceptualising the relationship between the EU and the states that came within its sphere of influence after the end of the Cold War, particularly its 'neighbours' in Eastern Europe. …”
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