About the Book: The Post Cold War World: Turbulence and Change in World Politics
Since the Fall
This book by a leading scholar of international relations examines the origins
of the new world disorder the resurgence of Russia, the rise of populism in the
West, deep tensions in the Atlantic alliance, and the new strategic partnership
between China and Russia and asks why so many assumptions about how the world
might look after the Cold War liberal, democratic and increasingly global have
proven to be so wrong. To explain this, Michael Cox goes back to the moment of
disintegration and examines what the Cold War