gan rapidly spreading during the 1980s and 1990s. As America became the policeman of international brotherhood, more and more nations began transforming to these values and institutions. Many viewed this spreading Americanization as not just the end of the Cold War or the end of the postwar era, but, instead, they saw it as the end of history as we knew it. There no longer seemed to be such differences separating nations as in the past. Instead of ideological systems fighting for supremacy and superiority, Western liberal democracy seemed poised to become the universal mode of human government and state formation. As one historian notes “
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