Looking back: a quarter of a century after the Cold War

This issue of the special issue of "Cold War History" will provide reviews at the conclusion of the Cold War 25 years after the end of peace. In order to realize the misunderstanding of our common humanity and common humanity, we must keep building international relations in conflict and cooperation.

In the quarter century after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the history of the Cold War unveiled a special retrospective of the Cold War. In the introduction, Beatrice Heuser pointed out that her students are now young enough, as her students are as far away as at the time of World War II (455). Since the decades of conflicts ceased from the memories of the young generation, we reconsidered the Cold War era, decided what we learned, examined the heritage of the times of modern international relations and pointed out the way of future research Now is the ideal time.

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After quarter century turmoil, geopolitics has returned to the center of struggle between freedom and dictatorship. There is a reason to doubt that our post-Cold War era has ended. We do not know what will happen next, but over the past few years there may be greater international instability over the past few decades.

From 1950 to 1990, the superficial answer is the Cold War. But the foreign empire of the United States is more than half a century ago of the Cold War (back to the 1898 Spanish-American war), it has already been over a quarter century. After the Civil War and the last conquest of the Native American countries, the American overseas empire adventure began. At that time, American political and business leaders tried to conquer overseas by participating in the European empire - in particular Britain, France, Russia and emerging Germany -. In a short period the United States occupied the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Panama and Hawaii and joined the empire of Europe while ringing the door of China.