Disruption

In Disruption , Michael De Groot argues that the global economic upheaval of the 1970s was decisive in ending the Cold War . Both the West and the Soviet bloc struggled with the slowdown of economic growth; chaos in the international monetary system; inflation; shocks in the commodities markets; and the emergence of offshore financial markets. The superpowers had previously disseminated resources to their allies to enhance their own national security, but the disappearance of postwar conditions