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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 2 / 2012  
         
  Article:   FROM THE ATLANTIC ORDER TO THE PACIFIC PRE-EMINENCE: A HISTORICAL SHIFT?.

Authors:  VALENTIN NAUMESCU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  

The post-1945 world was shaped, regulated and led by the transatlantic order, based on a set of values, interests, arrangements and institutions emerging from the strategic alliance between the United States and Western Europe. The West won the Cold War and eventually extended its umbrella over the Central and Eastern European countries, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The ideological core of the liberal democracy has been the corner-stone of the Western system and the engine for a long era of success and hegemony. More than a simple review of the current theories focusing on the end of the Atlantic order but definitely less than a comprehensive answer to the major interrogations of a changing world, this article assumes the modest purpose of emphasizing some questions, real arguments as well as a few dilemmas (and sometimes illusions!) related to the nowadays large perception of a definitive transfer of the “gravity centre” from Atlantic to Asia-Pacific co-ordinates.

Key words: West, United States, Europe, Atlantic, Asia-Pacific

 
         
     
         
         
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