This is comparable with the peaks of isolationist sentiment after the Vietnam war and after the cold war ended.
After the cold war ended, though, this self-regulating and rather self-important culture has come under scrutiny.
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These are the same institutions France painstakingly designed throughout and immediately after the Cold War.
After the Cold War, the Soviet Union split into 15 new states by mutual consent.
It was not so long after the Cold War was concluded that I joined the United States Senate.
But those targets were chosen in the early days after the cold war.
Some of these wars are the result of a geopolitical shaking-out after the cold war, and so might be expected to abate.
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Even after the cold war ended and outsiders stopped backing the rebels, they fought on, with occasional interruptions, until April this year.
It may be no coincidence that some of the most promising peacemaking between Israel and the Palestinians took place soon after the cold war ended.
Even George Bush, no dewy-eyed disarmer, negotiated cuts down to 1, 700-2, 200 apiece by 2012 (from the 6, 000 agreed upon after the cold war had ended) and was ready to go lower.
For example, RFE's Polish service (disbanded after the Cold War) acted as if it were a domestic medium, broadcasting news and features that were of particular interest to the people of Poland.
After the Cold War ended in 1989, artists colonised neighbourhoods such as Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg in eastern Berlin, drawn by the inexpensive rent and enormous, high-ceilinged apartments found in 19th-century buildings and unused department stores.
Unlike rival Connecticut conglomerate General Electric, United Technologies maintained an extensive presence in the military marketplace after the Cold War ended, and is continuing on that path by purchasing Goodrich even as it grows civil and commercial aerospace revenues.
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Mr Talbott has also had the good luck to be able to track the same tension in the present day, as America after the cold war has oscillated between a multilateral and unilateral foreign policy under Presidents Clinton and Bush.
They also converted the first four vessels in the class to cruise-missile launchers with no nuclear role after the Cold War ended, which is why there are only 14 Ohios carrying ballistic missiles today rather than the 18 that were built.
This was true for the Allies after World War I, for the United States during the Cold War and for Israel after signing the peace treaty with Egypt.
Because 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Russian relationship has to be about more than just security and arms control.
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There was a time after the end of the Cold War when Russia's moribund navy never ventured into the Mediterranean and its foreign policy ambitions were greatly curtailed.
Muddling a way through the maze that still persists long after the end of the cold war, dithery countries need someone or something out front.
To Mr Blair's critics this is a ridiculous amount to pay for cover against risks that, after the end of the cold war, are almost inconceivable.
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Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history -- the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.
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The homosexual rights movement began in an organized way in the United States after World War II during the Cold War when the Mattachine Society was founded.
The Arctic is also reappearing in national-security debates after falling off military radars with the Cold War's end.
The United States recognised Angola only in 1993, after cold-shouldering its Russian-backed government for the previous 20 years during the Cold War.
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