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North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is one of the world’s most secretive and enigmatic ...

The behavior of developing countries suggests that they do not see a US-China bipolar world order on the horizon.

After World War II, America's foreign policy was imposed upon her by the terrible realities the war produced: brutalitarian Stalinist domination of Eastern and Central Europe and much of Asia.

Good Neighbors As the Cold War settled into détente in the early 1970s, Fidel Castro, following the Soviet line, began to soften his own antagonistic rhetoric against the United States.

Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Jun., 1995), pp. 227-254 (28 pages) The demise of the Cold War and greater cooperation among the Security ...

Scholars have often wondered whether the nature of alliance politics fundamentally changed during the bipolar nuclear era characterized by the Cold War. The extension of the Alliance Treaty ...