ABSTRACT
International relations have assumed many forms throughout history, and the Cold War of 1946-90 has arguably not been the first or only cold war. It was certainly not the first major political conflict to have combined ideological and geopolitical elements. This chapter addresses the Western efforts to change post-Soviet behavior attention must be given to the closely associated but separate phenomena of the end of the Cold War and the end of the Soviet Union. The Western powers with the United States in the lead, have moved to develop a new security architecture for Europe based on United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), rather than on the United Nations or some new organization and also the Soviet Union was defeated by history, not by the Western powers. Moreover, Russia is not a defeated power but a reborn state liberated by the demise of the Soviet Union.
