Cold War
The origins of the East-West conflict stems from multiple events. This tension brewed into a bitter and long conflict known as the Cold War. The struggle for dominance and world power was masked with differences in ideas of political, social and economic ways of life. At the climax of the Cold War stood the threat of Nuclear War during the Cuban Missile crisis. To better understand why Soviet and United States relations diminished quickly after the World War II the framework of realism and idealism will be used. Both systems of thought have contrasting views and ideas that relate to foreign affairs. These systems will analyze and explain the reasoning for why both nations, the United States and the Soviet Union, acted and responded the way they did towards each other. One of the more simple explanations of why the Cold War existed can be explained by realism. Realist believe that main characteristic of the international system is anarchy and that the dominate actor is the state. This idea of no one governing body in the world was the ongoing struggle of power between the Soviets and Americans. This idea intern would be the basis of realist explanation for the decline of relations between these two countries.
The combination of power and self-interest lead to overall survival of each state. Military strength is the dominant for of power and is key to survival among realist. With this thought in mind, we may better understand the Soviets reasoning for placing offensive ballistic missiles in Cuba. This action ultimately led to the Cuban Missile Crisis showdown. It would be of self-interest to the Soviets to have the capability to strike at the United States in case of war. Thus, explaining the United States reasoning for missiles based in Turkey pointed towards the Soviet Union. Power, self-interest and overall survival are the only common interest of both the Soviets and Americans. John Jocque Rousseiv stated that our common interest lead not to corporation but a state of conflict. Hegemony or the idea that there is one power overall can simplify the struggling relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Both states wanted to become this hegemony and in the process be omnipotent. The hegemony in turn establishes regimes, which are a set of norms or rules to how states should interact with each other. One prime example of a United States regime is that the idea of capitalism is good, while non-capitalism is bad. This rallie
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