the balance of power

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…Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. This showing how important it is to have alliances. With the collapse of the Soviet Union after the fall of communism in 1992, the sole superpower became the U.S. Though being the sole power the U.S. faced difficulties in foreign relations because countries fear the predominant power that the U.S. has. Many states generally understand that aggression crates new sources of resistance and is thus self-defeating.