
Empire Unhinged with Aslı Bâli & Aziz Rana
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Multi Lateralism and the Cold War
The cold war's end gave the impression that, or confirm to many, that history had an arc. The investment by the united states in multi lateralism had to do with this rivalry with the soviet union. Multi lateralism wasn't just a means of accomplishing us interest. Wasn't another of tool in the farm polisy tool ket. It was the legitimating frame that expressed the superiority of the model that the united states presented to its chief rival. And then you get the period that azis and i write about in this essay, which is the arrival of the clintoad dimnistration and the beginning of a series of defections.
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