Ozbrojené konflikty po konci studené války
Armed Conflicts after the End of World War Two

Contributor(s): Ivo Pospíšil (Editor), Zdeněk Kříž (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, International Law, Special Historiographies:, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Military policy, Cold-War History, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Cold War; Armed Conflicts; Peace and conflicts; International Relations; World War II; International law; Criminal law;
Summary/Abstract: Did the Cold War, or rather the end of it, represent any kind of fundamental milestone in armed conflicts? Answering this question became the central research focus of a project undertaken by a group of specialists from the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University as part of the grant funded project “Armed Conflicts in International Relations after the end of the Cold War”. The project was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. To a certain extent the team of authors attempted to summarize the research that has so far been conducted in this field and to present a more complex picture of the kind of changes that have actually occurred within armed conflicts over the last two decades and what the reasons for and consequences of these changes are. What is certain is that the end of the Cold War did not put an end to armed conflicts as such. On the contrary, latent tension which manifested itself through fractional armed conflicts, mostly on the periphery, had many more opportunities to develop after 1990 and grew into conflicts which a number of powers became involved in. Europe – the continent in which the Iron Curtain was located, but which had been spared open armed conflict throughout the entire duration of the Cold War – in the early nineties was to witness the most extensive violence to have occurred there since the end of World War II.

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