El fin del mundo bipolar y la disputa por la hegemonía en Europa, 1985-1999

Abstract

The disintegration of the soviet union in 1991 led to a change in the world order towards a US unipolar moment and into a dispute, over the reframing of the European regional orders format. Several events contributed to it: the political and economic crisis of the Russian Federation and the electoral rise of communists; the German Unification; the request of several post-communist countries to join NATO; Yugoslavian wars. Ultimatly, three international organizations present in Europe, such as NATO, the EEC and the CSCE were transformed. NATO Enlargement in 1999, which enrolled the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland into its ranks, was the decisive factor through which the United States as head of the unipolar world order, endorsed its hegemony on the European regional order.