At some point in the past few years, that overworked phrase “the post-Cold War world” fell out of fashion, even though it has not really been replaced. It was neither a satisfactory nor a popular way of describing the strange and somewhat anomalous time after the Gorbachev reforms and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union changed the geopolitical furniture. Some preferred to describe the 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall as America’s unipolar moment, the period when it was the sole and unquestioned hyperpower, uniquely and unprecedentedly dominant in military, economic, technological and even cultural power.
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