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Is Ukraine creating a new interpretation of international relations: Neo-Idealism?

The Global Gambit

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The Loss of Faith in the West

The winning of the Cold War and democratization wave in 1989 did give this kind of liberal confidence in the West as shot in the arm again. However, that has subsequently evaporated with the global war on terror with the great global financial crisis. And I think it's partly our economic arrangements, but also our political arrangements, which have suffered from the same malaise as the international system. Lack of meaningful participation in democracy lack of feeling of control over one's own life.

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