Just as they are being justified by the Cold War's end, they are surely shaping the character of the post-Cold War strategic environment.
Or, as Colin Powell put it, it is not just that the Cold War is over - now the post Cold War is over too.
His comment about World War IV indicates that the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church continues to reconsider the matter of war in the present-day, post-Cold War world, and that it is placing the Cold War into a historical perspective.
The Center believes that the illusions of the fleeting "Post-Cold War" era must now be replaced with a more realistic view of Western security requirements in the Post-Kuwait world.
And some have a more fundamental question about NATO's relevance in the post-Cold War world.
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Hence 10% of all electricity in this country comes from post-Cold War weapons dismantling.
During the 1990s the CIA struggled to reinvent itself in the post-Cold War era.
The Russian leader says the CFE treaty no longer reflects the post-Cold War world.
Post-Cold War South Korea is no longer a hostile country but an important trading partner.
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Most EU nations have cut defence spending in the post Cold War years.
One of the defining characteristics of the post-Cold War strategic environment is a great deal of uncertainty about threats.
We agree that it would be no small thing if post-Cold War Russia aligns itself more closely with the West.
The immediate post-Cold War years saw a collapse of economies in both the former East Bloc and in South America.
For her part, Lady Thatcher has in 1996 issued a no-less-clarion call about the dangers emerging in the post-Cold War world.
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It is our job to make our partners address the real issues facing Europe - of new post cold war reality.
In many ways, the post-Cold War period resembles the interwar interregnum, during which military powers experimented with new technologies, organizations, and doctrine.
The post-Cold War benchmark of three percent of GDP constitutes a floor beneath which defense spending should not be allowed to sink.
What do you see as NATO's role in the post-Cold War environment?
Yet those who complain she lacks a grand strategy to subdue a messy post-cold war world may be missing the point about Albright.
It has not reorganized itself, and the old and decrepit former U.S.IA bureaucracy now under its control, to face the post-Cold War challenge.
Far from becoming expendable in the post-Cold War world, a strong and secure Turkey is in fact more important today than ever before.
The lead discussant for the Roundtable's first session, concerning "Why Nuclear Weapons Matter in the Post-Cold War World, " was Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ).
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In 1991, NATO defense ministers approved a radical shakeup of its forces in post-cold war Europe, including creation of a Rapid Reaction Force.
"The danger is that this will turn Russia against the entire post-Cold War settlement with the new countries, with democratization, with demilitarization, " Mandelbaum said.
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Among the handful of big military contractors that survived the post-Cold War consolidation of the defense sector, none has performed better than General Dynamics.
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Gates spent more time responding to the conference's Saturday surprise, Russian President Vladimir Putin blasting the U.S.'s post-Cold War foreign policy as unipolar and dangerous.
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Fourteen years of no-new-nuke-orders later, uranium mining's drop in popularity came with the post-Cold War decision to buy Soviet weapons and turn them into reactor-grade fuel.
He has been at the forefront of issues and legislation related to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.
The reason: to start enlarging the 16-nation defense alliance and to discuss reorganizing the alliance's military structure to take into account the new challenges of the post-Cold War period.
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