Reaction Paper: Ideology and the Cold War

Reaction Paper: Ideology and the Cold War

Introduction

Ideologies are basically associated to the mental approach of people in terms of shared framework. It represents the construal approach to the environment together with the structural ways of the environment. It includes the social aspects of problem solving and sharing ideas. It also encompasses the psychological aspects describing the existential, relational and the epistemic notions and aims of the groups of individuals (Jost, et.al 2009).

Political Ideology

Political ideology is mainly a system belief, explaining and justifying an ideal economic and legislative order for the society. It provides the strategic approach towards the maintenance and accomplishments of this order. It also facilitates in giving inference to the personalities and the policies, and emphasizes the public events (Shook & Fazio, 2009).

The formation of political ideology resulted with the need of crystallizing and communicating the beliefs, values, and opinions with in a class, or society. This propagation of the ideological beliefs across the national and political needs of a country laid the foundation of the political ideology, which is directly associated with the governmental activities. These ideologies are meant to represent the governmental interests around the world by means of allegations and suppositions about the nature of human, historical events, the realties and possibilities about the political ideals together with the envisioning the world (Jost, et.al 2009).

Politically, the individuals are vigilant and conservative in terms of limiting their experience for the new achievements while the liberal people are indiscriminately able to approach the novel motivations. Hence, the personal behaviors are directly related to the formation of political ideology (Shook & Fazio, 2009).

Effects of the End of the Cold War

According to Hoffman, the Cold War end had increased the intensity of civil wars and ethnic conflicts across the world. During the period, ...