What were the major (and not-so-reported-but-still-major) world events of the early 1990s? The USSR was dying, the economy was suffering, and problems abounded. Observers theorized on America's future role in a post-soviet world. First, we look into America's foreign policy and George Bush's New World Order speech before noting the role of the United Nations. Then we travel to dozens of locations around the world (from the UK, to France, to Afghanistan, to Palestine, to Rwanda, to South Africa, to Cuba, to Peru, to Japan, to China-- and lots of places in between. How did structural adjustment, the World Bank, and international monetary funds impact developing nations? How and why did George Bush lie about Iraq? How were revolutionary governments neutered by globalization and neoliberal politics? How did some governments, like China and Cuba, adapt? How did the world fail Rwanda and other nations struggling from genocide? SOURCES: GLOSSARY AND STUDY GUIDE: [George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, Frances Fukuyama, tuberculosis, HIV, World Trade Organization, Margeret Thatcher, How Did Margaret Thatcher fall, how did labor oust Margaret Thatcher, UK and the European Union, European exchange rate mechanism, black Wednesday, chunnel, internet, the troubles, Stephen Lawerence, murder of Stephen Lawerence, British racism, Mary Robinson, Sinead O Connor, Toubon law, xenophobia in France and Germany, Muslims in France, banning head scarves in france, Hoyerswerda riots, the rostock riots, molln massacre, the fall of the USSR, the end of the USSR, Gorbachev, failed Soviet Coup Detat 1991, Belavezha Accords, Gorbachev resigns, Boris Yeltsin, Russia's shock therapy, October Coup of 1993, Boris Yeltsin's drinking problem, The Breakup of Yugoslavia, The Bosnian Genocide, Slobodan Milosevic, Croatia, Brioni Agreement, Sadaam Hussein, Invasion of Kuwait, Nayirah congressional testimony, Operation Desert Storm, Gulf War, burning of oil wells, saudi arabia, Afghanistan, formation of Taliban, United Nations and Zionism, Sierra Leone, Rebel United Front, Liberia, Nigeria, Somalia, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, Mohamed Farrah Adid, Operation Gothic Serpent, Black Hawk Down, Hutu, Tutsi, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Juvenal Habyarimana, Arusha Accords, Burundi, Madame Agate Uwilingiyimana, Paul Kagame, kigale, Romeo Dallaire, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, ZANU-PF, South Africa, Mandela, Eugène Terre’Blanche, FW De Klerk, Panama, Invasion of Panama, Manuel Noriega, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Cuba, Operation Restore Democracy, Operation Just Cause, Cuba, Storm of The Century, Special Period, Mexico, North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, Zapatista Army, EZLN, Violeta Chamorro, Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, Colombia, Luis Garavito, Pablo Escobar, drug trafficking, medellin, calli cartel, Peru, Abimael Guzman, Shining Path, Alberto Fujimori, Vladimiro Monstesinos, Plan Verde, Archives of Terror, India, Narasimha Rao, Bollywood, Bombay Riots, Latar Earthquake, Rajiv Ghandi assasination, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, North Korea, China, Deng Xiaoping, Deng's Southern Tour, How Did China become capitalist again, Yinhe incident) Love the content? Support for $1/month on https://patreon.com/intelexualmedia Sources, essays, exclusive videos, a podcast, reading lists, and much more are available ON PATREON.