Title: The post-Cold War world
Headings: The post-Cold War world
The post-Cold War world
Contents
Cold War legacies
Nuclear weapons
The Soviet nuclear arsenal
Geopolitical changes
The Paris Charter
Islamic terrorism
Afghanistan
The rise of China
Chinese authoritarianism
North Korea
Castro’s Cuba

Content: The NATO intervention was opposed by Russia and increased tensions between Washington and Moscow. The Paris Charter
The 1990s also saw greater cooperation and unity between former rivals. In November 1990, 32 European nations, along with the US and Canada, signed the Paris Charter for a New Europe. This agreement, which facilitated greater consultation and collaboration between all European nations, is viewed by some historians as the peace treaty that formally ended the Cold War. The Paris Charter led to the formation of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), an intergovernmental body sometimes described as the ‘European United Nations’. The OSCE investigates and deliberates on many issues including security and policing, counter-terrorism, border control, crisis management, conflict prevention, fair elections, human trafficking, freedom of the press and other human rights issues. More controversial is the ongoing role of NATO, which has continued post-Cold War, despite the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR. In recent years, several former Soviet bloc nations have been admitted as member-states of NATO, including Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania and the Baltic states. Russian leaders like Vladimir Putin view the continuation and expansion of NATO as an unjustifiable threat to their country. Islamic terrorism
Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader who ordered the 9-11 attacks on the US
As predicted by political theorist Samuel Huntington, the post-Cold War era coincided with an increase in radical Islamic movements in the Middle East and Asia.