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Post Cold War 1990s - Coggle Diagram
Post Cold War 1990s
Haiti
just following Clinton's failed October 1993 attempt to oust Hatian strong man Raoul Cédras, former President Jimmy Carter stepped in to negotiate with the brutal military dictator for his removal from power
Cédras had overthrown the Caribbean nation's democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in a 1991 coup
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United State forces were sent in to make certain that the agreement was enforced, but they were eventually withdrawn. The democratic institutions of this impoverished nation remain fragile and endangered.
a military group overthrew Jean Betrend Aristide, the president of Haiti from the nations first free elections in which plunged the country into turmoil.
Africa
In April 1994, a vast killing spree broke out in Rwanda
An estimated 800,000 Tutsi and their defenders were murdered in a government-sponsored genocide.
neither the United States nor the United Nations moved aggressively to stop the slaughter. Both Clinton and the world community were criticized for not acting quickly and decisively to stop the violent deaths of Rwandans.
In 1998, the Clintons embarked on an extensive six-nation tour of Africa, during which the President stopped briefly in Rwanda to meet with survivors of the civil war and to issue an apology for actions not taken.
Russia
Russia was successfully persuaded to withdraw troops from the Baltic Republics of Estonia and Latvia in 1994.
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International Trade
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The WTO replaced GATT, expanding the organization's authority to negotiate trade agreements, settle disputes, and enforce compliance.
Cooperation on openness of trade, financial flows, and movements of people became a pillar of the post–Cold War international order and held out a bargain to states outside of American alliances.
Clinton eventually focused on the creation of a new approach to international affairs, a policy his advisers called the "doctrine of enlargement." This doctrine, based on the idea of expanding the community of market democracies around the world, embraced free trade, multilateral peacekeeping efforts and international alliances, and a commitment to intervene in world crisis situations when practical
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Yugoslavia
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4 of Yugoslavians 6 major republics formed their own states, and long suppressed ethnic and religious hostiles surfaced
Eastern orthodox Serbs attacked catholic Croats and Bosnian Muslims and forcibly removed then later murdered them.
Somalia
Weeks before Clinton took office, outgoing-President George H. W. Bush had sent American troops into Somalia. What started out as a humanitarian mission to combat famine grew into a bloody military struggle, with the bodies of dead American soldiers dragged through the streets of the Somalian capital of Mogadishu in October 1993
Clinton announced a full withdrawal of U.S. forces, which took place in March 1994; United Nations (UN) peacekeeping troops remained in the country until the spring of 1995.The intervention ultimately accomplished little in Somalia
warlords remained in control, and no functioning government was restored
Israel
In the Middle East, the administration facilitated negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. While these talks seemed to offer hope of a potential settlement, they broke off amid mutual recriminations and were soon followed by a renewed and more lethal round of fighting between Palestinians and Israelis.
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Northern Ireland
an administration emissary, former senator George Mitchell, brokered peace negotiations between the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Sinn Fein ("Ourselves Alone").
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