Referat Bernhard Klingen

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• etwa 43% der Abstimmungen führten zu einer Trennung des Gremiums
entlang der West-Rest“-Linie, 7% zu einer entlang der East-Rest“-
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Linie und 14% entlang der North-South“-Linie
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−→ obwohl viele Themen des Ost-West-Konflikts nicht mehr in der Generalversammlung
der Vereinten Nationen behandelt wurden (beispielsweise
kam es nie zu einer Abstimmung über den Vietnamkrieg),
dominiert dieser das Abstimmungsverhalten
204 International Organization
−→ Ergebnisse der Nominate-Schätzung für die post-Cold War“-Periode:
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FIGURE 5. Structure of conflict in the UNGA (1991–93)
Abbildung 2: Konfliktlinien in der VN-Generalversammlung 1991–93
ern European states are now located closer to Western European states than to Russia.
Countries belonging to the former Soviet bloc have thus switched sides since the
end of the Cold War.
‘‘Non-Western’’ is a good label for the second pole, because its prototypical members
are exactly those states that have been involved in clashes with the West and, in
particular, the United States in the 1990s. On this side of the dimension, the remaining
communist states Laos, North Korea, Vietnam, China, and Cuba group together
with states such as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Burma, and, in the 1994–96
period, India. Of these countries, only Vietnam and Cuba can be found on extreme
positions to the East in the period preceding the end of the Cold War (see Figure 4).
The first dimension represents a continuum, with the United States and its Western
allies on one extreme, followed by the Orthodox former Soviet republics, the Latin
American countries, a group of African and Asian countries in the middle, and at the