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Cold War's last frontier.

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| July 12, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From The Korea Herald)

By S.P. Seth Ever since the Bush administration came to power, it has very clearly and deliberately emphasized that the U.S. would no longer be guided by the mindset of the Cold War era. Even though the United States won the Cold war in the late-eighties and early nineties, it was psychologically unprepared for its new status as the world's only superpower. It had no identifiable enemy to substitute for the collapsed Soviet Union. The new era was pronounced the 'end of history' by Francis Fukuyama. He wrote that liberal democracy was the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government", therefore constituting the "end of history". In other words, the United States was the way of the future for mankind. Even as Fukuyama was …

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