Beneath the ruins of World War II (WWII), a new world order was beginning to emerge. The old, weak European powers were devastated by the war and could no longer hold the world on their shoulders. Subsequently, new superpowers had to take control; these were the USSR and the United States. Shortly after the end of the Second World War, new international tensions emerged following the breakdown of the Grand Alliance (Taylor, 1993, p. 49). Disagreements between the new superpowers grew to the point that the Cold War became a reality. This new world order has ideologically divided the world into two camps; the anti-imperialist (United States) and the anti-capitalist (USSR) (Ibid, p. 51). The ideological war was underscored by a geopolitical transition, subsequently creating the bipolar world of the Cold War (Ibid). Although, considered the most stable global geopolitical order, the Cold War yielded during its course "a variety of international relations within a single model" (Ibid). It is therefore questionable whether the geopolitics of the Cold War was correctly captured in the term “bipolar world order”. With the “relative decline” of the superpowers in the late 1960s, disruptions within the single model began to materialize (Ibid, p. 55). The beginning of Détente was marked by the gradual construction of political importance for the Third World, but not only that. In addition to this, other states like China, Japan and the European Community began to emerge under the cover of the global duopoly. Furthermore, popular concerns on a global scale unified the masses and challenged the bipolarity of Cold War rhetoric. The thawing period of the Cold War opened the door for the Third World to reclaim its political importance. . middle of paper ...... (1998). Geopolitics: Rethinking Global Politics. London. Cohen, S., B. (1973). Geography and politics in a divided world. 2nd ed. London: Oxford University Press Inc. Dodds, K. (2000). Geopolitics in a changing world. Harlow, Essex, England: Pearson Education Ltd. Konrad, G. (2006). Antigeopolitics: a moral force. In: Tuathail, G., O., Dalby, S. and Routledge P. The Geopolitics Reader. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. p.259-263.Short, J., R. (1982). An introduction to political geography. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. Taylor, J., P. (1993). Geopolitical world orders. In: Taylor, J., P. Twentieth-century political geography: a global analysis. London: Belhaven Press. p.31-63.Tuathail, G., O. (2006). Introduction to Cold War geopolitics. In: Tuathail, G., O., Dalby, S. and Routledge P. The Geopolitics Reader. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. p.57-75.