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The end of the Cold War saw a change in the structure of the international system from a bipolar world with the United States bloc on one side and the Soviet bloc on the other to a unipolar world with the United States as the sole superpower. Hardly any international relations theorists had predicted such a sudden end to the Cold War. Realists such as Kenneth Waltz (Jackson & Sørensen, 2007) continued to argue that from their theoretical standpoint of structural realism, a bipolar world was more desirable than a unipolar or a multipolar world in an anarchical international system.
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