ABSTRACT
Realists like George Kennan focused on security issues in a bipolar world fraught with Cold War tensions and the potential of a nuclear holocaust. Corporatism, recognizing the power of business within the free world, understands why the Cold War world had to remain polarized until the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. During the aftermath of World War II, Stalin's socialism in one country became a socialist bloc, adding the countries of Eastern Europe, China, North Korea, and eventually Vietnam and Cuba. On the one hand, many in the Western free world viewed the socialist bloc as a fundamental threat to their way of life. Most liberals and some realists argue that the invention of nuclear weapons has rendered great power war so horribly destructive that war among the nuclear powers is no longer a viable option. Since the end of the Cold War, the prospect of war among the great powers has virtually vanished.
