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=Modern Conflicts= Modern Conflicts focuses on the world from the end of the Cold War in 1991 to present time. After the Cold War, the world was left with one remaining superpower, the U.S. There are new challenges to be faced in their new era. What new challenges does the world face? What will be the role of the U.S.? What will be the role of the U.N.? These questions will be answered in the coming century.  =="//Since the formation of civilizations, the history of the world has involved rapid change, sometimes in directions already set, sometimes in new ones. This pattern continues as we enter the 21st century. Indeed, some people argue that the pace of change has sped up as new discoveries and new technologies press against older ideas and habits. In other words, world history offers no convenient stopping point at which one can lean back and say, “This is what it all means.” People in various civilizations have attempted to devise schemes to look beyond the present. From the time of the ancient river valley civilizations to the 21st century, some people have used astrology or other divinations to predict the future. More systematically, some scholars have assumed that time moves in cycles, so that one can count on repetition of basic patterns…The idea of a master plan guiding history, moving it in a steady direction and toward a purpose, runs deep in the thought of several cultures, including our own. Whatever the approach, the human impulse to know what we cannot definitely know seems inescapable. Yet all the evidence suggests that our vision of the future remains cloudy at best....So we cannot know what is to come, but we can use history to speculate about the unknown."// ==