New World Order

HIS 187

History and headlines

ICC history

Gorbachev at the UN

December 1988

Politicians

Berlin Wall falls

November 1989

The Cold War is over (isn’t it?)

German reunification

Russian presidential elections

1991

Attempted coup

1991

End of USSR

Christmas 1991

Nicaraguan elections

1990

Just Cause

Post-Cold War intervention

Christmas 1989

a great principle is spreading across the world like wildfire. That principle, as we all know, is the revolutionary idea that people, not governments, are sovereign

Luigi Einaudi, US ambassador to OAS

Persian Gulf War

New World Order

we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order…where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders.

George H.W. Bush, 1991

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Ratification

1992

• ratification with reservations

• including those preventing the treaty being applied to the United States

Why not take Baghdad?

I would guess if we had gone in there, we would still have forces in Baghdad today. We’d be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home.

Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, 1992

Occupational hazards

occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations’ mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land

George H.W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, 1998

Toward the 21st century