I would like to introduce briefly the main information about this particular conflict. Basically, the Cold War (1945-1991) was a political and military tension after the Second World War between two great powers: the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The first included such states and allies as the United States and NATO. The Eastern Bloc – the Soviet Union and its allies from the Warsaw Pact respectively. By the time when the Second World War ended, the majority of American officials have …show more content…
In my personal point of view, in contrast with the 'tough’ realistic point of view, the liberal doctrine provides a dynamic area to explain this particular phenomena. Liberals would consider a bilateral trade agreement as a way to convey democratic values among public and state actors: the process might be completely deliberate, such as subjecting trade expansion on the condition of achieving certain other reforms in different fields: human rights, education or health in instance. The great example is the preferential trade agreement between European Union and Chile; but the value transfer might also happen to be the result of 'excess' that perform the first step, i.e. the entry into force of the agreement on economic integration. It can be deduced, these views suggest that usually one of these two parties has a desire to expand its web of enlightened values. It shows that the party is democracy-motivated.
The next question: what would then explain the bilateral preferential trade agreements between non-democratic regimes? As an example we will take the trade agreement, which was signed by Egypt and Turkey in 2005. If we allow democracy to be indicators of the level of presence of pluralistic institutions, political participation or, say, civil liberties, we find out that, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit index of democracy, these two countries, classified as 'authoritarian' and 'hybrid' regimes