Title: Post–Cold War era - Wikipedia
Headings: Post–Cold War era
Post–Cold War era
Contents
Background
Dating issues
Trends
International cooperation
Consequences of the fall of communism
Government, economic and military institutions
Technology
The Second Cold War
See also
References
Further reading

Content: Accompanying the NATO expansion, Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) systems were installed in Eastern Europe. These marked important steps in military globalization . International cooperation
The end of the Cold War intensified hopes for increasing international cooperation and strengthened international organizations focused on approaching global issues. This has paved way for the establishment of international agreements such as the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and the Paris Climate Agreement. Environmentalism has also become a mainstream concern in the post–Cold War era following the circulation of widely accepted evidence for human activity's effects on Earth's climate. The same heightened consciousness is true of terrorism, owing largely to the September 11 attacks in the United States and their global fallout. Consequences of the fall of communism
The collapse of the Soviet Union caused profound changes in nearly every society in the world. Much of the policy and infrastructure of the West and the Eastern Bloc had revolved around the capitalist and communist ideologies respectively and the possibility of a nuclear warfare . Government, economic and military institutions
The fall of Communism formed an existential threat for many institutions. The US military was forced to cut much of its expenditure, though the level rose again to comparable heights after the September 11 attacks and the initiation of the War on Terror in 2001.