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Political Transformation. Accelerating spread of western style liberal democracies fundamentally reset the global political system Helped topple the Berlin Wall in 1989 Collapsed the Communist Bloc Ended the Cold War Set a Uni -Polar World
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Political Transformation • Accelerating spread of western style liberal democracies fundamentally reset the global political system • Helped topple the Berlin Wall in 1989 • Collapsed the Communist Bloc • Ended the Cold War • Set a Uni-Polar World • US as the Global Hegemon using its Soft and Hard Power to set the rules of the game • The universalization of Western liberal democracy, reinforced by the market fundamentalism of capitalism, represented the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the final stage of human government. • Some saw the global surge in Democracies symbolizing the "end of history.”
The Tools of the American Century • Soft Power • ability to attract and co-opt, rather than coerce with force or money, as a means of persuasion • Culture, ideals, images, outlooks, rhetoric • People worldwide found the American form of self-government attractive and reset their societies along the same lines. • Now, if you resisted our standards…. • Hard Power • Use of military, financial, and/or economic coercion to influence the behavior interests of other political agents • Nation as Peacekeeper