After the cold war ended, though, this self-regulating and rather self-important culture has come under scrutiny.
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These are the same institutions France painstakingly designed throughout and immediately after the Cold War.
After the Cold War, the Soviet Union split into 15 new states by mutual consent.
It was not so long after the Cold War was concluded that I joined the United States Senate.
This is comparable with the peaks of isolationist sentiment after the Vietnam war and after the cold war ended.
But the local residents also understand that cleaning up after the cold war pays even better than winning it.
But those targets were chosen in the early days after the cold war.
That proud "uni-polar moment" after the Cold War when the US reigned supreme as the only superpower could not last.
Why would Eastern European nations we courted after the Cold War trust an America which nonchalantly reneged on our missile shield?
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Some of these wars are the result of a geopolitical shaking-out after the cold war, and so might be expected to abate.
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After the Cold War, the U.S. enjoyed a period of almost unrivalled influence, free to intervene more or less wherever it wanted.
Even after the cold war ended and outsiders stopped backing the rebels, they fought on, with occasional interruptions, until April this year.
But that was already the case 20 years ago, when Bill Clinton won the White House right after the Cold War had ended.
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It may be no coincidence that some of the most promising peacemaking between Israel and the Palestinians took place soon after the cold war ended.
Jimmy Carter slashed spending because the Vietnam War had just ended and Bill Clinton did the same because he entered office right after the Cold War concluded.
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After the cold war, the American government thought that its army, with no more communists to face down, could be put to better use guarding food-aid deliveries in Somalia.
Even George Bush, no dewy-eyed disarmer, negotiated cuts down to 1, 700-2, 200 apiece by 2012 (from the 6, 000 agreed upon after the cold war had ended) and was ready to go lower.
For example, RFE's Polish service (disbanded after the Cold War) acted as if it were a domestic medium, broadcasting news and features that were of particular interest to the people of Poland.
Mr Bush will assert that he is miles ahead of Mr Kerry on national security saving special scorn for Mr Kerry's call, after the cold war's end, to cut the budget of intelligence-gathering agencies.
After the Cold War ended in 1989, artists colonised neighbourhoods such as Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg in eastern Berlin, drawn by the inexpensive rent and enormous, high-ceilinged apartments found in 19th-century buildings and unused department stores.
That deal came in, I would say in the early 90s, after the Cold War, and it ends at the end of this year, and Russia is salivating to make some money off of uranium exports.
Unlike rival Connecticut conglomerate General Electric, United Technologies maintained an extensive presence in the military marketplace after the Cold War ended, and is continuing on that path by purchasing Goodrich even as it grows civil and commercial aerospace revenues.
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Mr Talbott has also had the good luck to be able to track the same tension in the present day, as America after the cold war has oscillated between a multilateral and unilateral foreign policy under Presidents Clinton and Bush.
They also converted the first four vessels in the class to cruise-missile launchers with no nuclear role after the Cold War ended, which is why there are only 14 Ohios carrying ballistic missiles today rather than the 18 that were built.
In 1996 a rebel army from eastern Congo marched a thousand miles across the lush country to depose Mobutu Sese Seko he of the leopard skin fez whose regime had been badly weakened by the winding down of Western support after the cold war.
This was true for the Allies after World War I, for the United States during the Cold War and for Israel after signing the peace treaty with Egypt.
After the end of the Cold War, the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign states.
Because 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Russian relationship has to be about more than just security and arms control.
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