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3 - Interstate Uses of Force, Tensions and Restraints during Major Phases of International Relations since World War II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Hans Blix
Affiliation:
International Atomic Energy Agency
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This chapter gives brief descriptions of Post-WWII interstate conflicts linked to the main phases in great power tensions: the bipolar Cold War, with Korean war 1950, the Viet Nam war 1965, Interventions, Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, the Détente and unipolar conflict resolving world that followed the break-up of the Soviet Union and the multipolar world that is emerging thereafter with terrorism, Russian intervention in Georgia and war in Ukraine and sharp tensions between the Koreas and in the East and South China Seas.

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A Farewell to Wars
The Growing Restraints on the Interstate Use of Force
, pp. 33 - 53
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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