Has Security Challenge in the 21st century failed due to Great Power Rivalry?
May 26, 2010 : Western security analysts have pondered long on the exact challenge to the international security environment in the 21st century. The simplest answer is terrorism and it started with the 9/11 the exact time and year. Rather, it started a decade ago in December 1991 when the Soviet Union was formerly abolished and the void which was created by the lack of great power rivalry in failing states. This was never thought much about in the United States and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization which has resulted in the “strategic shortfall” in the thinking of the security analysts. The great power rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war ensured that many of the countries which had a weak state-nation balance was funded financially, politically and ideologically by both the Soviet Union and the United States to ward off each other’s influence. Some of the states in which the great power rivalry was staged were Angola, Somalia, Ecuador, and
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