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State any six post-Cold War changes that have necessitated reforms to make the U.N. work better.

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What is meant by traditional notions of internal and external security?

Answer:

Post-Cold War changes:

(i) Soviet Union has collapsed.

(ii) US is the strongest power.

(iii) The relationship between Russia and the US arc more co-operative.

(iv) The economies of Asia are growing at an unprecedented rate.

(v) India and China are growing- rapidly.

(vi) Many new countries have joined the UN.

(vii) A. whole new set of challenges like genocide, civil war, ethnic conflict, terrorism, climate change, environmental degradation etc., confronts the world.

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Traditional notions of internal security: Traditional security must also concern itself with internal security. After the second world war, for the most powerful countries on earth, internal security was more or less assured. After 1945, Ac US and the Soviet Union appeared to be united and could expect peace within their borders. In Europe, most of the powerful countries faced no threat from groups or communities living within their borders. However, newly independent countries of Asia and Africa faced problems of Civil war,

Traditional notion of external security:

The period after the Second World War was the cold war period in which the US led western alliance faced the Soviet led Communist alliance. The two alliances feared a military attack from each other. Some European powers, in addition, continued to worry about violence in their colonies, from colonized People who wanted Independence.