Kenneth Waltz And The Outcome Of The Cold War

In the year of 1979, Kenneth Waltz created a hypothesis which stated “The world is more stable if dominated by fewer numbers of greater powers”. His main argument was that alliances would spread in a multipolar world rather than a bipolar world. The multipolar period is, six states fought for influence along with the distribution of power which was constantly changing. The Cold War era was only stable dude to the domination that was shared between two superpowers (A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the Soviet Union or United States.) Although much has changed since the year that Mr. Waltz had presented his hypothesis. The outcome of the cold war has not only financial but also …show more content…
The collapse of the formal government in eastern countries caused them to rise back up as an independent nation, forming their own government. For example, Yugoslavia who was formally known ruled by Russia is now ruled by their own government. At the end of the Cold War Eastern Europe had started an era filled with economic growth and a large number of liberal democracies, but in other part of the world like Afghanistan independence was established due to state failure. In the beginning of the Cold War the newly founded nations had become successor to many expenses and commitments. This became a burden on many new nations, with so many things to finance this drove many to collapse as soon as they started. Many struggled and became bankrupt to keep up with other nations, causing some to flourish and others to …show more content…
Even with discontinuance of the cold war, military continues to develop; this has lapsed the spending especially in the deployment of nuclear-armed and ballistic missiles along with defensive systems. Due to the fact that there was no formalized treaty ending the Cold War, the former influential nations have continued to desperate lengths. This caused them to depend on their economies to maintain and push to improve, even modify existing nuclear weapons. Many states had taken into consideration the potential risk to national and international security, which pushed them to acknowledge nuclear-weapons states had inherited major responsibilities in protecting sustaining the balance of their nuclear forces. To elaborate on risks, there are accidental and unauthorized nuclear havoc which not only puts the military in danger it puts civilians into that category as well. Even today hackers and even terrorists continue to manipulate nuclear