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In international relations, a frozen conflict is a situation in which active armed conflict has been brought to an end, but no peace treaty or other political framework resolves the conflict to the satisfaction of the combatants.
Bust of Thucydides. The Thucydides Trap, or Thucydides' Trap, is a term popularized by American political scientist Graham T. Allison to describe an apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon. [1]
Geopolitical events, such as elections, wars, assassinations and terrorist attacks, can significantly impact stock market performance across various sectors. This influence typically stems from ...
The term is often used to refer to a period of general easing of geopolitical tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War. Détente began in 1969 as a core element of the foreign policy of U.S. president Richard Nixon .
As tensions grew into the Cold War, relations became hostile with large-scale war plans, but no direct war took place. Tensions between the two states were briefly relaxed in the 1970s owing to the detente , but relations took a turn for the worse again in the early 1980s with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan .
As the Cold War stretched on, the main concern became the possibility of a nuclear exchange—the ultimate fear characterizing East-West tensions. Some of these confrontations included: Berlin Blockade (1948–1949) – while located wholly within the Soviet zone of Allied-occupied Germany after World War II, Berlin was not considered to be ...
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