After democratization, the freedom of expression granted to filmmakers as well as post-Cold War and post-nationalist trends made it possible to do the unthinkable in questioning South Korea's legitimacy.
Even so, had he continued with his Agenda for Peace in the second half of his term of office, he might have gone down in the annals of the United Nations as a significant player in post cold war politics.
Just as audiences in the post cold war world were perhaps beginning to tire of the political theatre genre, Fo's Nobel prize brought him and Rame back into the limelight.
In 1994, the 102d received more F-15A/B Eagles from the 32nd Fighter Group at Soesterberg Air Base, which was inactivating as part of the post Cold War draw down of forces in Europe.
Sixteen years of highly interventionist post Cold War administrations followed.
As part of post-Cold War restructuring, NATO's military structure was cut back and reorganized, with new forces such as the Headquarters Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps established.
While Richard Holbrooke, the American special envoy for Bosnia, recognized Operation Deliberate Force as "a historic development in post-Cold War relations" and as a crucial element in ending the war in Bosnia, the actual impact of Deny Flight on the course of the conflict was more muted.
Yet it is hard to shake the feeling that the design is intended as a parody of post-Cold War fortress America, with its intoxicating, commercialized freedoms gaily paraded beneath the scrutiny of video surveillance cameras and Men in Black.
It is as vulgar and reductive to view Shostakovich's life and music through a smug lens of post-cold war triumphalism as it is to enshrine him as a dissident.
But, while the key internal coordinates were the JFK shooting and Watergate – scenes often take place in underground car parks, the favoured meeting place of the Watergate mole Deep Throat – the show owed much of its impact to the external atmosphere of post-cold war America, as dictatorships fell around the world and elected politicians struggled to find the right words for a free world.
In November 2008, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated that the Raptor was not relevant in post-Cold War conflicts such as in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in April 2009, under the new Obama Administration, he called for ending F-22 production in fiscal year (FY) 2011, leaving the USAF with 187 production aircraft.
