CEVAP:

The end of the Cold War era paved the way for strengthening American primacy across the globe, as no other power was in a position to shake up the foundations of this uni-polar era for about fifteen years. The 1990s and much of the 2000s demonstrated that the U.S. was the indispensable power on earth. Through its involvement, both the ethnic wars in the Balkans came to an end and western norms and intuitions were enlarged to erstwhile communist countries in central and eastern Europe. The enlargement of NATO and European Union towards the former communist countries bolstered the U.S. primacy in Europe,
whereas the percolation of the so-called Washington consensus across the globe solidified the capitalist and liberal-democratic principles in other locations.