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Foreign Policy: Ideological and Human Rights Factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

Mark P. Gibney
Mark P. Gibney
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Purdue University
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The Berlin Wall is down; the Cold War is finally over. With the stunning victory by the United Nations forces in the Persian Gulf, President George Bush has proclaimed a “new world order.” Bush provides this description of the old world: “Until now, the world we've known has been a world divided—a world of barbed wire and concrete block, conflict and cold war.

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Journal of Policy History , Volume 4 , Special Issue 1: Refugees and the Asylum Dilemma in the West , January 1992 , pp. 36 - 53
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1992

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