The Inequality of Violence : On the Discovery of Civil War as a Threat to “ the North ” in the 1990 s and the Debate over Causes and Solutions

There are many reasons for this change in perceptions. The obvious one is that the East has disappeared. The massive expenditures on armaments, militaries, nuclear deterrence, strategic aid and proxy wars in the third-world and to anti-communist counterinsurgencies are a matter of history. The US declared victory as the sole remaining superpower, and the Second World dissolved into a few lucky enough to make it into the First World (like Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia) and the rest who fell into the impoverished Third.