PARADIGMATIC SHIFTS IN STRATEGIC RIVALRIES
PARADIGMATIC SHIFTS IN STRATEGIC RIVALRIES

Summary/Abstract: Until recently, since the end of the Cold War, we never witnessed such an amplitude. Strategic rivalries manifested especially at regional level after the Cold War period, culminated with the Ukrainian crisis, a peak in the last manifestation of international rivalry, basically due to the peripheral actors involved, the Ukrainian crisis demonstrated that international interstate rivalry is still playing.This paper proposes a brief analysis of several regional strategic rivalries and advances the existence of a new type of international strategic rivalry, a far more complex than the interstate type, rivalry which became more and more visible on the international scene with the emergence of ISIS, initially a declared fundamentalist terrorist organization that during last two years became a more complex entity.

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